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Leonardo DiCaprio made a real fist of his meaty role in the Academy award-winning biopic The Aviator in which he played Howard Hughes. DiCaprio will once again portray the role of a real-life pioneer in the Paramount Pictures’ film tentatively titled Atari. The film will tell the story of one of the pioneers of the videogames industry, Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari.

The movie has been scripted by Brian Hacker and Craig Sherman who were able to convince Bushnell to entrust them with his story. Bushnell co-founded Atari along with Ted Dabney in 1972 and, in the same year, he changed the face of videogames with the first Pong game. But he had more in store in form of the Atari 2600, one of the earliest consoles to use removable storage media.

DiCaprio has emerged as a biopic specialist of sorts as he has previously played Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries and notorious Frank Abagnale in Catch Me If You Can. Bushnell does not have the most colorful life, at least going by common knowledge about him, but the movie is expected to be refreshing. I suspect it might have a few surprises.

Read [Variety]  Via [GameSpot] Also Read [OK Magazine]