Leo Gets His Shot To Play A Viking After All As "King Harald"

Warner Bros has acquired the pitch "King Harald" that Mark L. Smith will turn into a script as a potential starring vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio to potentially star in says Deadline.

The film will follow Harald Hardrada, the 11th Century conqueror who has been called the last great Viking king. His thirst for battle led to him being briefly exiled to Russia before returning in triumph.

DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran will produce.

DiCaprio previously circled a now seemingly defunct film about Viking warriors that Mel Gibson was set to direct.

Smith and Leo keep crossing paths.

He wrote the upcoming "The Revenant" which DiCaprio and Sean Penn are attached to star in, and the DiCaprio produced "Endurance" about explorer Ernest Shackleton and his doomed 1914 expedition to the South Pole.