Leonardo DiCaprio Set for Assassin Thriller ‘Satori’

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6:27 pm, October 3rd, 2011

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Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in Satori, based on the Don Winslow book about a Westerner trained as an assassin in Japan.

The actor would play Nicholai Hel, whose martial arts skills (and Go-based strategic thinking) help him survive against various espionage agencies and crime groups in post-World War II Southeast Asia.

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As it happens, DiCaprio’s gal pal Blake Lively is in the upcoming Savages, also based on a Winslow bestseller.

Deadline first reported the Satori project.

DiCaprio is busy, currently filming The Great Gatsby for Baz Luhrmann and preparing to play a plantation owner in Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained.

He’ll next be in theaters as J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood‘s biopic J. Edgar, the trailer for which can be seen here.

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