Leonardo Di Caprio

Tom Cruise was attached to this project but is still in negotiations to get this one. The film is an adaptation of the Wildstorm comic book Sleeper for producer Sam Raimi. Tom Cruise is still not confirmed for the project. Warner Bros has hired new script writer Brad Ingelsby of the Honeyfields to pen a script. Ridley Scott and Leonardo Di Caprio are attached to this first script sale, Low Dweller, which Relativity Media purchased for 500,000 dollars against 1 million dollars.

The graphic novel is written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, the story follows a covert sleeper operative named Holden Carver aka the Conductor, who is fused with an alien artifact that makes him not only impervious to pain, but also able to pass it along to other through skin contact. Carver has been placed undercover in a villainous organization led by TAO. But when the only guy who knows that he is undercover agent goes into a coma, Carver must question right and wrong, as he falls and for a member of the group while rising though he ranks.

Sleeper is placed number 81 on the Comic Book Resource’s top 100 comic book runs of all time. Aside from being a spin off of Wild C.A.T.s, Sleeper also features character from Gen 13. Warner Bros hopes to turn the project into a franchise. The synopsis for this film really sound good and it will make for some interesting viewing for the big screen.

Ridley Scott and Leonardo Di Caprio are not attached to the Sleeper project. They are attached to another adaptation by Ingelsby called the Low Dweller.

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