David O. Russell and Leonardo DiCaprio get hip to the "assassinating JFK" trend that's so hot right now
Proving that the retro-‘60s fad still has some legs, assassinating John F. Kennedy is suddenly all the rage again, as more and more of today’s filmmakers get hip to the far-out sound of a nation’s innocence dying. As with so many horrible moments in history, Tom Hanks was right there with Parkland, followed soon after by J.J. Abrams saying he might be interested in taking Stephen King’s 11/22/63 from Jonathan Demme, and then came announcement of David Mamet’s Blackbird, a Cate Blanchett-starring thriller about a modern-day woman who begins to suspect her grandfather of being part of the conspiracy that definitely didn’t happen, crazypants. Now comes word from Showbiz411 that David O. Russell is considering directing Leonardo DiCaprio in Legacy Of Secrecy, based on Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann’s book on the role the Mafia may have played not only in the murder of JFK, but also that of his brother Robert and Martin Luther King Jr.