Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Nolan Bushnell in “Atari”

By Charlie Brett
12:49, June 9th 2008
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Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Nolan Bushnell in “Atari”

Being an actor must be very interesting. You get to have multiple personalities without worrying that people might think you have a disorder.

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of those lucky actors and now he gets to impersonate Nolan Bushnell, one of the founders of the videogame industry. Bushnell is the man who founded Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain.

According to Reuters, DiCaprio will star in and also produce the movie “Atari.” He will play the game lover, engineering student who used to repair broken pinball machines before he decided to start his own business in the 70’s. Bushnell along with Ted Dabney founded Atari.

He first produced a game called Pong and, after several years, he sold the company to Warner Communications for $28 million.

Although other producers have asked Bushnell to let them make a movie based on his life, writers Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman were the only ones who managed to convince him.

Along his successful career, DiCaprio has portrayed author Tobias Wolff ("This Boy's Life"), poets Jim Carroll ("The Basketball Diaries") and Arthur Rimbaud ("Total Eclipse"), playboy Howard Hughes ("The Aviator") and also Frank Abagnale Jr. ("Catch Me If You Can"). Talk about multiple personalities!

His Appian Way shingle is going to produce “Atari.”



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