VIDEO : Leonardo DiCaprio Is Set To Star in Sam Phillips Music Biopic

Paramount Pictures has acquired the book ?Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ?N? Roll? for an adaptation to star Leonardo DiCaprio. The book, written by Peter Guralnick of ?Last Train to Memphis?, tells the story of Phillips and the music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin? Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash, introducing a sound that had never been heard before. DiCaprio and Davisson will produce along with Guralnick, Mick Jagger, Victoria Pearman, Steve Bing, Ian Montone, Rick Yorn.