Oscar-winning Leonardo DiCaprio will embody the role of the 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt in Martin Scorsese's film drama.

About the participation of the star in the film adaptation of history, dedicated to politics, the publication Deadline Hollywood.

Moreover, Leonardo will produce the tape along with Martin Scorsese and Chuck Pacheco, and its script writer will be Scott Bloom.

For today, information about the beginning of filming and the release date of the painting is not available.

By the way, DiCaprio and Scorsese are connected by long friendship and work on films ("The Gang of New York", "The Wolf with Wall Street" and many others).

Recall, in August it became known about another difficult role of Leonardo DiCaprio. Star of the tape "Titanic" agreed to play an outstanding Italian scientist, inventor and artist Leonardo da Vinci. The film will be screened based on the novel by American writer-biographer Walter Isaacson.