DiCaprio Captured to Play Atari NerdGuys, where has Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. been? He made a huge critical comeback performance in 2006's The Departed and we haven't seen him on the big screen since. But according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. his IMDB See in-memory database. page, he's been pretty busy, including a starring role in Ridley Scott's new movie House of Lies, which comes out this year. He's also been working on Scorsese's Shutter Island with other bright and glittery folks. But maybe he has also been holed up playing video games, researching as a producer and star of a biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] about Nolan Bushnell, one of the creators of Atari. Variety reports: Paramount Pictures has snapped up a pitch titled “Atari,” with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star. Written by Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman, project is a biopic about entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Atari and one of the founding fathers of the vidgame industry. Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari in 1972 and were instrumental in bringing arcade games, home vidgame consoles and home computers to the masses. Among the company’s contributions were Pong (games) Pong - A computer game invented in 1972 by Atari's Nolan Bushnell. The game is a minimalist rendering of table tennis. Each of the two players are represented as a white slab, controllable by a knob, which deflects a bouncing ball. and the Atari 2600. 
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