Leonardo DiCaprio Turns Down STAR WARS for ROBOTECH
It shouldn't come as a surprise that Disney and Lucasfilm have been going after big name actors to star in J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII. We recently learned that Ryan Gosling and Zac Efron are being considered for parts, but they aren't the only ones the studio has sought.
According to Latino-Review, the studio also wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to star in the film. He turned it down so that he could focus his attention on Robotech instead! I've been waiting for a live-action Robotech movie for years! The last thing we heard was that commercial director Nic Mathieu would be developing it with producers Akiva Goldsman and Tobey Maguire.
If he turned down Star Wars for Robotech, then I assume he's already committed to the big screen adaption of the classic '80s anime series. It makes sense that he would choose this over Star Wars. It just doesn't seem like DiCaprio would fit in that universe. He's also close friends with Maguire, and you've gotta have your friend's back.
Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off an alien invasion, with the fate of the human race ending up in the hands of two young pilots.
As a huge fan of this series, I'm very excited to see it finally brought to the big screen as a live-action film.
What do you think of the possibility of DiCaprio starring in the movie?