Leonardo DiCaprio to Play the Life of Legendary Sam Phillips

By Staff Reporter - 24 Oct '16 06:27AM
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Some of you may not know who Sam Phillips is or as they say, the young generations have limited information about him. Does your mind ask why this man is a Legend and his life will be performed by the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio?

Sam Phillip is a Sun Studio Records founder and an early successful investor in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels. He just played the important role in a successful career of the awesome Elvis Presley that emerge our love to rock and roll music following the music icons such as Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins in 1950's. On Phillips childhood days, his first ignition of love on music is when he heard workers singing in the fields and when he fell in love at Beale Street.

 In spite of Leo being one of the best actors in Hollywood, he just recently won the Academy Best Actor Oscar award for the movie "The Revenant" but who knows maybe Phillips life documentation will be his second award as a jump start from his very first Oscar best actor award. Acquiring the life biography of Sam Phillips by Paramount pictures from Peter Guralnick's book "Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'N' Roll" that put on shelves last year then will be produced by Jennifer Davisson, Mick Jagger, Victoria Pearman, Steve Bing, Ian Montone, Rick Yord and Peter Guralnick.

As of the moment, the title of the movie is still unknown publicly nevertheless it will be one of his best performances for sure. Paramount is still busy creating and finding the best team for developing DiCaprio's movie. Apart from getting the rights to the "Captain America" movie they also got the rights of "Truevine" which will be potentially performed by Leonardo DiCaprio also.

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