Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights for Don Winslow’s bestselling novel Satori, with plans to develop it for Titanic actor Leonardo DiCaprio, reports Deadline.
Satori tells the story of Nicholai Hel (Leonardo DiCaprio), an American assassin raised in Japan and trained as a martial arts expert. Hel gets caught up in the chaos after World War and is hired by the CIA for a dangerous assassination assignment.
If the film is a success, the studio plans to develop a film franchise based on the Trevanian novels. Satori is the prequel to the book by another author, Shibumi by Trevanian, a pen name for the late Rodney Whitaker.
No director is currently attached to the project, nor has a release date been announced.
Leonardo DiCaprio is a busy actor these days. He can soon be seen in Clint Eastwood’s biopic of CIA director J. Edgar, and is about to begin filming Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.