Leonardo DiCaprio in Final Talks to Star in and Produce MGM’s ‘Jim Jones’ Movie

Variety ^ | 11/08/2021 | Angelique Jackson

[going hot]

They best not get alec baldwin anywhere near the set, he might use real cyanide.

[x]

Leo seems like an unlikely Jim Jones, but he was an unlikely Howard Hughes and an unlikely Jay Gatsby. The little guy has his faults, but you can’t say he doesn’t take on challenges.

[bray]

You can bet he was a Trump supporter.

[Drew68]

Newsweek had a recent writeup was surprised they pointed out the socialist angle and the connection to Milk.

Newsweek has been pretty schizophrenic lately. They've had several stories that, ahem, seemed to be critical of liberalism. The magazine's opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, is running around giving interviews on CNN claiming woke media is destroying democracy.

I dunno what to think of 'em anymore.

[Robwin]

Rumor has it that the main sticking point hindering production is how to blame that Guyana thing on Trump.

[rbg81]

Powers Booth was da man

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Yeah—he did a pretty good job with JJ. Actually, he did a good job with nearly all his roles. I almost did not even recognize him in “Tombstone”.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Are they going to leave out the fact that he was a murderous, atheist, Soviet communist? Like the MSM did even did when I was growing up? They NEVER touched on that. Just called them a “religious cult”.

[MHT]

I just wish that they would release the movie about one of America’s first serial killers... Dr. H. Holmes and the Chicago World’s Fair. Simply chilling... I think that it has already been filmed but stayed in the can for nearly 10 years...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What no one talks about Jim Jones is that he tried to set up a socialist paradise and it failed. FAILED. The people realized it didn't work, so Jones had them killed. A Congressman was killed trying to get them out.

I bet the socialism aspect won't get mentioned.

[FreedomForce]

Jim Jones was a Marxist. I wonder if they’ll sweep that under the rug. He was a big admirer of Mao. Pals with some pretty big name Democrats, too.

[Drew68]

I just wish that they would release the movie about one of America’s first serial killers... Dr. H. Holmes and the Chicago World’s Fair. Simply chilling...

Great book, as are most of Larson's.

[Mears]

Great book…Larson is awesome.

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[El Cid]

I've been reading through Daniel Flynn's book, "Cult City, Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days that Shook San Francisco".
Jim Jones was a psychotic Marxist. He was no Christian, but used the pulpit as a vehicle to push his poison.
His ties to Harvey Milk, Willie Brown, and various other Democrat bigwigs was deep. I am sure those ties will be ignored in this movie, and they'll pretend that he was a real preacher - and not a psycho who preached only communism (Jones wanted to visit Fidel Cuba, but even Fidel knew he was nuts).

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

It’s interesting.

[Drew68]

I’ve always thought that some of them were turned face down by the first people there to investigate, knowing the photos would be taken and that it would be too horrible to see their faces and also the privacy issue.

I don't know. There's a few photos of bodies lying face up but not many.

It would've seemed a huge task for the few security people who killed themselves last to reposition the bodies, particularly with all the chaos going on.

From what I've read, it took the adults about 20-30 minutes to die. Their children died quicker, so many parents watched their own kids die first. Many people were forcibly injected with the drug cocktail, of which cyanide was just one part. There's also speculation that the lunch they ate earlier was laced with sedatives.

There were "dry runs" previously where people drank what they thought was poison and waited to die, only to be told later that it wasn't poison, just practice. Some people thought this was another dry run, until people around them started dropping dead.

Really, a crazy story and I'd like to learn more about now that I'm older. I was nine years old when it happened and still remember it pretty well, particularly the photos taken from the air of all the bodies lying everywhere.

[Sparky1776]

Yes and sitting Congresswoman Jackie Speier was Congressman Ryan’s aide, she was gun down at the airport with him but survived. I believe Willie Brown was Jones’s friend and we know who his squeeze was.

[Drew68]

Jim Jones was a Marxist. I wonder if they’ll sweep that under the rug.

A number of the dead left wills giving everything to the USSR. In fact, escaping to the Soviet Union was one of their end-times plans before they just decided to comment "revolutionary suicide" as Jones termed it.

[Rebelbase]

Come my children and take the vaccine....

[SimpleJack]

[mcshot]

Dude, now you got me running over to Parks and Rec to check out eyes and craziness while a guy whacks his balls off in a pile of bat guano. shakes head