Another Presidential movie on the way with news from Variety through Coming Soon today that Leonardo DiCaprio is set to take the lead.

Paramount Pictures has optioned the Pulitzer Prize-winning Edmund Morris book The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and will develop it for Martin Scorsese to direct and Leonardo DiCaprio to star as the 26th U.S. president, reports Variety. Nicholas Meyer (The Human Stain) is writing the script.

The film will chronicle the formative years of Roosevelt as he reinvented himself from a slight and privileged New York politician with a Harvard degree to the burly commander of the Rough Riders, a track that would lead him to the New York governorship, the vice presidency and the White House, when William McKinley was assassinated.

I think this looks quite a good match, DiCarpio could pull off this role really well, and with Scorsese directing it's sure to rival the Spielberg-Neeson Lincoln project