Leonardo DiCaprio's role in Quentin Tarantino's new movie revealed

Plus some more details on the director's ninth feature film

Leonardo DiCaprio has been absent from cinema screens for just over two years, last appearing in The Revenant for which the actor won an Oscar.

DiCaprio’s next major project looks to be the upcoming Quentin Tarantino movie, one that will feature the Charles Manson murders as a backdrop.

As we already know, the actor won’t be playing the famed murderer, though, instead taking on the role of as-yet-unnamed “ageing actor”.

Thanks to Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr., we have a few more details about the character, specifying how DiCaprio plays “an actor who had his own Western show, Bounty Law, that ran on the air from 1958 to 1963.”

Unfortunately for the character, his transition to movies doesn't work out. Around 1969, the actor’s guesting on other people’s shows and contemplating going to Italy where low-budget Westerns are all the buzz.

Described as a “Pulp Fiction-esque tapestry of Los Angeles during the summer of the Manson murders”, there’s little other information about casting except the possibility Margot Robbie will play Sharon Tate, although not confirmed.

The publication also says Tom Cruise has been heavily touted to be involved in the project. Tarantino’s movie — the director’s ninth — will reach cinemas 9 August, 2019

Meanwhile, DiCaprio’s name has been attached to a handful of new projects, including an adaptation of The Black Hand, a Martin Scorsese-directed Theodore Roosevelt biopic, a Scorsese adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon, and a Leonardo Da Vinci biopic.