Jared Leto Will Star as Andy Warhol in Upcoming Biopic

After a disappointingly small amount of screen time in a supporting role as the Joker in Suicide Squad, Jared Leto is returning to leading man status. THR reports that the Oscar winner will portray pop artist Andy Warhol in a new biopic called Warhol, which is being written by The Wolf of Wall Street scribe Terence Winter and produced by Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Captain Phillips).

Warhol was a fascinating figure, a vibrant artist in multiple fields, and a figurehead of the New York City art world in the 1960s. He was also openly gay in a time when that wasn't nearly as culturally accepted as it is now. Recently, Bill Hader played Warhol in Men in Black 3, and Cary Elwes is playing him in the upcoming Billionaire Boys Club. John Cameron Mitchell also played the artist in HBO's short-lived series Vinyl, a series for which Winter was the showrunner.

The project is reportedly being eyed as a "strong mainstream project with prestige credentials" instead of a small budget indie, so from the sound of it, this will be Leto going back into full-on Oscar bait mode again. He'll next be seen in Blade Runner 2.