DiCaprio lined up to play video game mogul

June 10, 2008 07:53:01 AM

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Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play pioneering video game entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell in a biopic about the Atari co-founder's life, it was reported Monday.

Daily Variety said screen heart-throb DiCaprio had been attached to produce as well as star in the film about Bushnell, one of the founding fathers of the video game industry.

Atari -- which created the world's first successful video game "Pong" -- was estimated to be worth more than 2 billion dollars by 1982 but was later broken up following the US video game crash of 1984.

DiCaprio, 33, will next appear in two dramas, the spy thriller "House of Lies" and "Revolutionary Road."