The Screenwriter for New Biopic of Sufi Poet and Mystic Rumi Wants to Cast...Leonardo DiCaprio

Oscar-winning screenwriter David Franzoni created Gladiator, and now he’s writing the story of a man who battled within the arena of his own mind. The Muslim poet and scholar Rumi lived in 13th century Afghanistan, then the outskirts of the Persian Empire; he is still well beloved, and soon his life will be on the big…