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The actor told USA Today that he is hoping to make a movie about the 26th US President his fifth collaboration with Scorsese.
"We have been developing that project for a long time," he said. "But the script is not there yet. It's the eternal thing."
The Body Of Lies star added that he will play the "very young Teddy" in the film.
DiCaprio has featured in Scorsese's Gangs Of New York, The Aviator and The Departed. The pair's next movie Shutter Island, about a World War II veteran on the hunt for his wife's killer, opens in cinemas later this year.
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