Hollywood Ink: Leonardo DiCaprio Dresses to Kill as J. Edgar Hoover

leonardo_dicaprio_ink.jpg· Yes, apparently Leonardo DiCaprio is the only leading man in Hollywood that major directors want to work with. The Inception star has officially signed on to the Clint Eastwood directed bio pic on the life of J. Edgar Hoover. Set up at Warner Bros. -- from a script by Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance Black (Milk) that has previously been reported to contain no cross-dressing claims -- it will mark the first time that DiCaprio has appeared in a film directed by the two-time Oscar winning director. No word yet on how Martin Scorsese feels about this obvious betrayal. [Deadline]

Rachel McAdams goes back to the well, Bradley Cooper plays ball and the rest of Hollywood Ink after the jump.

· Remember how much you loved The Notebook? Well has Hollywood got a project for you! Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum have agreed to star in The Vow, a new weepy romance film that surprisingly doesn't come from a Nicholas Sparks novel. McAdams will play a newly married woman who goes into a coma following a serious car accident, only to awaken without the memory of her husband (Tatum) and their life together. He's forced to win her heart again and -- wait, are you crying already? [THR]

· Pun time! Disney has caught a pitch from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps writer Allan Loeb about a baseball star who gets injured and heads to the minor leagues to rebuild his career. The twist is that the only place he can find to live is in a senior citizen's home that just so happens to house an "old baseball guru." What a coincidence! Bradley Cooper is attached to star -- great casting -- and if Burgess Meredith were still alive, presumably he would be as well. [THR]

· And you thought ladies wouldn't be interested in an adaptation of the board game Battleship. In addition to lead Taylor Kitsch (Friday Night Lights), the Peter Berg-directed hopeful summer blockbuster has added True Blood star Alexander Skarsgard to the mix. Expect many shirtless scenes of struggle. [Heat Vision/THR]



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