Leonardo DiCaprio And Jonah Hill To Re-Team For Movie About The Falsely Accused Atlanta Olympics Bomber Richard Jewell

Actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill were great together in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, and now it seems that the pair are keen on re-teaming once again for yet another biopic project.

According to Deadline 20th Century Fox has acquired the rights for Marie Brenner's 1997 Vanity Fair article – The Ballad of Richard Jewell, Which recounts the story and events of the hero who discovered a backpack bomb during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and subsequently vilify after becoming a suspect.

The news outlet reports that Jonah Hill will play the Jewel role while DiCaprio will play the role of Jewel's lawyer, a Southern attorney who mostly did real estate closings and seemed in over his head, but he guided Jewel through a hellish Twilight Zone that went on even after the FBI officially cleared Jewel's name.

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