Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio ReTeaming for Film on Falsely Accused Olympic Bombing Suspect

With Best Picture contender The Wolf of Wall Street earning Oscar nominations for both Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, it's obvious that their pairing yielded incredible results. But they also became great friends on the set, with DiCaprio popping up during Hill's SNL hosting gig, not to mention their plans to develop a TV series based on the golden era of hip-hop. And now they're set to work together one more time on something that sounds a lot more serious than any of their previous collaborations.

According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox has picked up the rights to the Vanity Fair article 'American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell', about the heroic security guard who discovered a suspicious package at the '96 Atlanta Olympics and helped get bystanders out of the area, saving many. When the package exploded, Jewell found himself the subject of media scrutiny and was vilified as a potential suspect, ruining his professional and personal life. Eric Rudolph eventually admitted to the crime, exonerating Jewell once and for all, but the damage had been done long before that.

In what should continue his remarkable turn towards the dramatic, Hill is expected to play Jewell with DiCaprio as the little-known Southern lawyer who helped him navigate the media firestorm. No word on a director yet but given the success they've had together thus far (they also appeared in Django Unchained together) there should be no shortage of volunteers.

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Michael Fassbender in talks for Danny Boyle's heist film, Trance

When we had a chance to hang out with Danny Boyle last year before the DC premier of 127 Hours, the director talked about how he wouldn't be doing much of anything this year or the next. At leas not on the big screen. He had some pretty good reasons. He'd be helming a stage interpretation of Frankenstein for a good part of this year, and then after that he had to start gearing up for the 2012 Olympics in London, which he's serving as a creative director on. So he's got a decent excuse. Then came the surprising word that Boyle would squeeze in one quick film before the Olympics, and that would be the art heist flick, Trance. Good news? Well yes, yes, and no.

THR reports that Michael Fassbender is in talks to join the film, which is absolutely fantastic news. They say Fassbender would play "An assistant at an auction house masterminds the heist and teams up with a gang of thieves, but suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia. He is the only one who knows where the painting’s location is and after his continued failure to remember, the gang begins to suspect duplicity on his part and hire a female hypnotist to get into his brain." Weird.  Trance is remake of a 2001 British TV movie by Joe Ahearne.

So it's great that we'll get to see more of Boyle sooner than we thought, and it's obviously a good thing if Fassbender signs on. You can already count me in for this one, because we haven't seen Boyle do this type of flick in years. The only thing that sucks is that the film will be shot this fall, but it won't be edited or finished until after the Olympics. So we probably won't see it until 2013.

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