Leonardo DiCaprio will star in Rasputin movie

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star as the title character in the upcoming film Rasputin, according to Deadline.
The 38-year-old actor will play the Russian mystic “who became an advisor to the Russian Imperial family the Romanovs.” He was embraced by Tsar Nicholas II as a healer for his only son, but his influence with the family in all matters “grew to the point that rivals tried several times to kill him, finally succeeding in 1916.”
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