Leonardo DiCaprio to star—but not as Charles Manson—in Quentin Tarantino's Manson Family movie

We’re still not convinced that his proposed Star Trek movie is ever actually going to happen, but plans for Quentin Tarantino’s ninth movie—an as-yet-untitled script that takes place during the Manson Family’s murder spree in the summer of 1969 and, at least tangentially, includes Manson and his followers as characters—are continuing apace. A little less than two months after Tarantino shacked up with Sony amid a heated bidding war over who would produce the star director’s post-Weinstein projects, Deadline reports that Leonardo DiCaprio, who played the villainous Calvin Candie in Tarantino’s 2012 film Django Unchained, has signed on to star in what we’ll refer to for the time being as No. 9.