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Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Nolan Bushnell in 'Atari' Movie

By Rich King on June 8, 2008

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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to play video game pioneer Nolan Bushnell in a biopic about the Atari co-founder's life, according to Variety.

Founded in 1972 by Bushnell and Ted Dabney, Atari helped pave the way for arcade games, home video game consoles and home computers. The company's products, such as Pong and the Atari 2600, helped define the computer entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid 1980s.

Bushnell, who also founded Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theaters, eventually sold the company to Warner Communications for $28 million.

DiCaprio, 33, will also produce the film through his Appian Way.

Bushnell is the latest in a long string of real-life personalities that DiCaprio has portrayed on screen over the years, including author Tobias Wolff ("This Boy's Life"), poets Jim Carroll ("The Basketball Diaries") and Arthur Rimbaud ("Total Eclipse"), counterfeiter Frank Abagnale Jr. ("Catch Me If You Can") and aviator Howard Hughes ("The Aviator").

The Oscar-nominator actor is also on board for upcoming films about Wall Street felon Jordan Belfort and James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

DiCaprio's next two films to arrive in theaters are the dramas "House of Lies" and "Revolutionary Road," both of which will be released this year.

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