Fresh off a stellar performance in The Wolf of Wall Street, actor Leonardo DiCaprio has committed to his next project. DiCaprio will lead the gritty thriller The Revenant for director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Biutiful), as the two have settled on a September production start-date. Based on the novel of the same name by author Michael Punke, the story revolves around an 1820s fronterisman who is mauled by a bear during a fur trapping expedition, robbed, and left for dead. When he recovers, he sets out to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
DiCaprio has been circling The Revenant for quite some time as Iñárritu has been trying to get the project off the ground, with the actor first flirting with the pic over two years ago. Deadline reports that DiCaprio has now fully committed to the New Regency project, which will begin filming this September for a Fall 2015 release through 20th Century Fox. Though Sean Penn was at one point connected to the role of one of the robbers, he is no longer involved with the project.