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Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing?

mikejuk writes "2012 is the one hundredth anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, with many celebration events being planned around the world. This week Warner Bros outbid other companies for the script of a biopic based on Turing's life. The script for The Imitation Game, by first-time screenwriter Graham Moore and based in turn on the biography by Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, was snapped up by Warner Bros in a 7-figure deal. Right now the leading candidate to portray Turing is Leonardo DiCaprio."

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  1. Re:That won't work by microbox · · Score: 4, Informative

    Women love homo-erotica. They don't fantasize about guys having sex, but rather, imagine men falling romantically in love with each other. Weird, eh?

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  2. Re:Fantastic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, he might once have had the image of a teen girl crush, but he's long become a grown man and i think he was exceptional in all his recent roles.

  3. Re:Way immature to play scientist like Turing by jamesh · · Score: 3, Informative

    He is one of the last actors I would imagine to play character like Turing, a thoughtful man, mathematician, scientist.. Everything Leo isn't.

    He's an actor though, so given a reasonable script he can play a thoughtful man, mathematician, and scientist.

    I know he's someone that it seems fashionable to hate but I've liked a lot of his movies.

  4. Re:Lots of interesting angles by colinrichardday · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wouldn't that be a Socratic death?

  5. Re:At Least it Wasn't Keanu Reeves... by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Informative

    I vote that this was posted by a computer AI.

  6. Re:Paging Dr. Freud? by outsider007 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not Freud. They showed gay porn to homophobes and a control group and counted the boners. Verified.

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