SATORI

• LEO DICAPRIO TO GO JAPANESE BOURNE

Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to develop DonWinslow's bestselling novel Satori, with Leonardo DiCaprio set to star in theleading role.

Leonardo DiCaprio 

Set in the early 1950s, the story follows Nicholai Hel(DiCaprio), a Westerner raised in Japan by a martial arts expert who trains himto become a deadly assassin and strategist. When Hel is thrown into solitaryconfinement at a Tokyo prison, the CIA springs him free on the condition thathe assassinates the Soviet commissioner to China.

According to Deadline, Shane Salerno (Armageddon) will bepenning the script alongside Winslow. John Lesher's Grisdi Productions andDiCaprio's Appian Way partner Jennifer Killoran will be producing. Warnersbelieve that the film could serve as a potential springboard for their ownJason Bourne-type action franchise.