A Hollywood website is reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio and his “Wolf of Wall Street” co-star Jonah Hill are teaming up to make a movie about Richard Jewell, the hero-turned-suspect-turned-hero-again in the wake of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing.

Deadline.com reports: “EXCLUSIVE: Fox has closed a deal to acquire rights to Marie Brenner’s 1997 Vanity Fair article “The Ballad Of Richard Jewell”, which will be developed for Jonah Hill to play the title subject. … Leonardo DiCaprio will play a lawyer Jewell knew casually, a Southern attorney who mostly did real estate closings and seemed in over his head, but he guided Jewell through a hellish Twilight Zone that went on even after the FBI officially cleared Jewell’s name three months later.”

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