Having worked together on 2002’s Catch Me If You Can, it is being reported that Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio could be set to reunite on DiCaprio’s Ulysses S. Grant biopic, which his Appian Way company is producing for Lionsgate.
According to Deadline, Spielberg is considering directing the project, which has been scripted by David James Kelly (Robin Hood) and is based on Ron Chernow’s biography Grant.
The film will reportedly detail Grant’s early business troubles and army resignation for drunkeness through his role as Abraham Lincoln’s most trusted general in the U.S. Civil War and his two subsequent terms in the White House, where he championed African-Americans and worked to stamp out the Ku Klux Klan.
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Spielberg, who is coming off the hit sci-fi Ready Player One, will next direct Indiana Jones 5, and also has a West Side Story remake and the DC project Blackhawk on his upcoming slate.
