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Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming up with Martin Scorsese for a biopic on a famous American. So what's new?
The year was 1995, and young Leo DiCaprio had been cast to play troubled poet Arthur Rimbaud in the career-boosting yet deeply flawed film Total Eclipse.
Little did he know that many, many more biopics would follow.
Some of them good, some of them bad - but mostly just a waste of the actor's talent.
The problem with biopics is that they're always hit and miss.
For every gripping Howard Hughes, there is a mediocre J Edgar Hoover peeking just around the corner.
DiCaprio as mad man Howard Hughes in Scorsese's The Aviator
For every fresh take on a dead white male, there's a by-the-book approach which makes us yawn and look at our phones in search of something more interesting.
On Wednesday, Paramount confirmed DiCaprio was teaming up with Scorsese once again - but not for a Joker origins film.
Instead, they will be taking on the much talked about adaptation of Roosevelt.
The film, which had been DiCaprio's passion project for a while, combines his two favourite things in the world: saving the environment and playing historical figures.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio can't get enough of each other
Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, was a naturalist. He was the president of national parks and forests.
Most interesting, perhaps, was his layered and complicated persona - often insecure but always determined.
Once mocked for his inability to properly ride a horse, Mr Roosevelt is now remembered for his "cowboy" facade.
He was also the youngest-ever president in America's history, and will no doubt be a much more suited role for the actor than playing a youngish version of a Batman foe.
But this is the third film in pre-production where the actor plays a real-life character.
In The Killers Of The Flower Moon, DiCaprio is rumoured to be reprising his J Edgar Hoover character - only this time with Scorsese behind the lens.
In The Black Hand, he will be playing real-life policeman Joe Petrosino, fighting gangsters in New York.
DiCaprio as FBI director Hoover in Clint Eastwood's patchy drama J Edgar
And this is all happening because Scorsese finally decided to scrap the Frank Sinatra biopic he had planned for Leo this year.
One person on Twitter wrote: "Quick do we think Leo DiCaprio will play every white man ever before he dies?"
Another said: "HOT TAKE: DiCaprio does too many biopics."
And another added: "I just wish Leo spent more of his time with created characters, just my personal preference."
But some were quick to reach the most sensible conclusion: "Oscar."
It was, after all, the depiction of real-life explorer Hugo Glass which brought DiCaprio the Academy Award he was longing for.
Who knows, maybe he will do it again.
(SKYNEWS)
