Leonardo DiCaprio Interested in Robotech Movie?

Gatsby co-star Tobey Maguire to produce feature based on anime.

Rumor has it that Leonardo DiCaprio has been approached about starring in Warner Bros. long-gestating Robotech movie.

What lends some credence to the rumor is that DiCaprio is old pals with Tobey Maguire, who is producing the Robotech movie and starred opposite Leo in The Great Gatsby.

Latino-Review claims Leo "wants to do" Robotech enough that he turned down a role in Star Wars: Episode VII to pursue it. Nick Mathieu was hired earlier this year to direct Robotech.

Robotech is based on the popular 1980s anime series. "Robotechnology" refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific island. Using this technology, Earth constructs huge transformable mechs to battle three successive alien invasions.

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