Tuesday, June 10, 2008

DiCaprio game for biopic of Atari founder

By Borys Kit and Jay A. Fernandez

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Leonardo DiCaprio has more fake IDs than Fletch.
The actor will star in and produce "Atari," a project about the godfather of the video game industry, Nolan Bushnell.

The engineering student, puzzle-lover and game enthusiast went from fixing broken pinball machines to launching Atari Corp., a video game manufacturer, in the early '70s. Its first product was a little game called Pong that transfixed kids in suburban rec rooms across the country and led to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of video game sales.

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