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DiCaprio will instead take the part of an
aging, out-of-work actor in the as-yet untitled movie being
produced and directed by Oscar-winner Quentin Tarantino, Variety
and Deadline.com said.
Plot details have not been released but Tarantino said in
November that it was not a biographical movie but a story set
during the summer of 1969, when a string of gruesome killings in
Southern California were carried out by Manson's followers.
Manson, one of the 20th century's most notorious criminals, died
in November at the age of 83. He had been serving a life
sentence for ordering the murders of nine people including
actress Sharon Tate.
The Sony Pictures movie is to be released on Aug. 9, 2019,
exactly 50 years after Tate and four friends were stabbed or
shot dead.
Deadline and Variety said that Australian actress Margot Robbie
has been asked to play Sharon Tate. Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Al
Pacino are also rumored to be interested, or are being sought,
for the movie.
Sony Pictures, part of Sony Corp, did not return a request for
comment on the casting.
The movie will be the first Tarantino film to be released
without the Weinstein Company following allegations by more than
70 women of sexual misconduct against its former chief executive
Harvey Weinstein.
Weinstein, who has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone,
was fired last November and his independent production company
is currently up for sale.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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