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Leo DiCaprio Tapped for Movie 'The Revenant'

The A-lister will play Hugh Glass, a trapper out for revenge after being mauled by a grizzly bear, left for dead and robbed.

Leonard DiCaprio will star as a 19th century fur trapper in director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "The Revenant," which set to start production in September, it was announced today.

DiCaprio will play Hugh Glass, a trapper out for revenge after being mauled by a grizzly bear, left for dead and robbed -- a story based on the Michael Punke novel, "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge."

The movie for Arnon Michan's New Regency Productions is scheduled for release in the fall of 2015.

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Gonzalez Inarritu's directing credits include "Amore perros" and "21 Grams," both of which earned him Academy Award nominations.

--City News Service

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