The Crowded Room (2016) Movie - Leonardo DiCaprio to Play 24 Different Personalities

Leonardo DiCaprio has lined up an intriguing acting challenge today, signing on to headline The Crowded Room. The Hollywood Reporter has the news, claiming that the Academy Award nominee has been eyeing the part for two decades and is now finally moving forward with plans to play the film’s lead role of Billy Milligan, a man with 24 different personalities and the subject of Daniel Keyes’ 1981 nonfiction book “The Minds of Billy Milligan.” Keyes’ text is described on the author’s official site as follows:

Out of control of his own actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body — a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality — the first such decision in history — bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.

Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan.

Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April whose only ambition was to kill Billy’s stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who “used” Billy’s body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain”; Arthur, the Englishman; Ragen, the “keeper of Rage” who possessed incredible strength; Allen, the con man; Tommy, the escape-artist, and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together. Each of these “people” play a distinct role in this often shocking true story.

The day this man... Leonardo DiCaprio wins an Oscar, the internet will break, I guarantee it.
And it looks like Leo has found his next potential Oscar worthy role, in fact it’s a role that he’s been wanting to play for nearly 20 years.

THR said that DiCaprio’s Appian Way along with New Regency are moving forward to produce THE CROWDED ROOM which will have Leo play Billy Milligan, the first person to successfully use multiple personality disorder to get himself acquitted of robbery and rape 

Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg will pen the script based on Daniel Keyes’ 1981 non-fiction book about Milligan who claimed to have had 24 personalities, Milligan died in December 2014, but back in the ’70s, he was charged and tried with robbery and raping three women on the Ohio State University campus, Milligan and his lawyers pleaded insanity on the grounds of two of Milligan’s 24 alternate personalities committed those crimes without his knowledge. One of the personalities was a lesbian named Adalana who supposedly raped those girls and the other is a Yugoslavian community who supposedly committed the robbery.

Well, I did enjoyed 2003’s James Mangold-directed thriller, “Identity” but to see Leonardo DiCaprio attempting 24 alternate personalities, now that I gotta see… and who knows, this CROWDED ROOM might lead Leo to his first golden statuette. What do you think ??

Leonardo DiCaprio's next 'The Revenant' will hit the theaters on Christmas 2015.

Saturday, February 28, 2015