Leonardo DiCaprio becomes Leonardo da Vinci

The Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a Modern and contemporary art collector, is set to play his Old Master namesake, Leonardo Da Vinci, in an eponymous biopic on the Renaissance polymath. The film is based off of Walter Isaacsons biography on Da Vinci, due to be released in October, which draws heavily on the Renaissance mans notebooks. As reported by Deadline Hollywood, Paramount Pictures snapped up the film rights to Isaacsons book on Saturday (12 August) after a heated bidding war wit