| Celebrity Update Leonardo DiCaprio is confirmed to be teaming up with the legendary Clint Eastwood for a biopic on the life of J Edgar Hoover. Back in March, a bunch of news came out about a biopic of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Milk’s Dustin Lance Black wrote the script, and it was at Universal before the studio passed. The film ended up at Warner Bros. and Malpaso Productions, with Clint Eastwood set to direct. There was a rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio was poised to star as Hoover, and that casting is now confirmed. |
J. Edgar Hoover was the first director of the FBI. His life story is quite interesting including unconfirmed reports that he was a homosexual and cross-dresser. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
Late in life, and after his death, Hoover became an increasingly controversial figure. Not just in his sexual orientation questions but also being accused of exceeding jurisdiction of the FBI many times.
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