Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming up with Michael Bay for an upcoming feature film.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Bay are in talks with Paramount to produce a move about the Team Rwanda biking team.
Leonardo DiCaprio is producing the untitled movie alongside Michael Bay. At this point, DiCaprio is not attached to star and Michael Bay is not directing.
Orlando von Einseidel, who directed Oscar-nominated gorilla documentary “Virunga,” is attached to direct. DiCaprio is an executive producer on “Virunga,” released last year.
According to Variety, The Rwanda bike project focuses on Jonathan Boyer, who became the first American cyclists to race in the Tour de France in 1981. He finished 12th in 1983, becoming known for eating tuns of nunts and fruit, and being intensely religious.
Boyer would later plead guilty in 2000 to 10 counts of felony child molestation and was sentenced to a year in jail and five years probation. He began bicycle racing again after completing his probation and planned on living in Rwanda – where he and his wife run the Team Rwanda cycling team and work with the Project Rwanda relief agency, which focuses on providing bicycles and other aid to Rwandans.
Team Rwanda member Adrien Niyonshuti, who lost six brothers in the 1994 genocide, completed in the 2012 London Olympics in the cross-country mountain bike race and has opened his own cycling academy.
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