Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot to produce Stephen King’s Billy Summers

Leonardo DiCaprio’s and J.J. Abrams’ production companies will work together on the film adaptation of Stephen King’s bestseller Billy Summers. 

Deadline reported that the two companies, DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Abrams’ Bad Robot, would be working together on the film which is to be written by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz who co-wrote Tom Cruise’s The Last Samurai together. 

Zwick also directed DiCaprio’s 2006 film Blood Diamond which garnered the star a Best Actor Oscar nod.

The publication reported that the project was originally going to be a 10-episode miniseries, but it was decided the book would work better as a feature-length film. 

Billy Summers does not yet have a release day since Zwick and Herskovitz are currently penning the script.

Working together: Leonardo DiCaprio’s and J.J. Abrams’ production companies will work together on the film adaptation of Stephen King’s bestseller Billy Summers. Deadline reported that the two companies, DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Abrams’ Bad Robot, would be working together on the film (pictured 2020)

Billy Summers tells the story of a hitman who goes to a small town, waiting to perform his next hit. 

The hitman pretends to be an aspiring writer as he holes up in a building across from where his target will soon be.

While he initially believed the job will be like any other, Summers slowly grows wary of his bosses and those concerns are validated as events unfold.

Billy Summers was released in 2021 by the publisher Scribner.

Since the character Billy Summers is an aging hitman looking to retire, DiCaprio could conceivably play him, though no announcement about that has been made. 

Abrams’ Bad Robot helped produce the series Lisey’s Story, Castle Rock and 11.22.63, all of which are based on King’s work. 

DiCaprio’s company Appian Way is behind the upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon which will also star the Titanic actor.

Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, which takes place after ‘members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover,’ according to the film’s IMDb page. 

Being written: Billy Summers does not yet have a release day since Zwick and Herskovitz are currently writing it

Crime story: Billy Summers, written by Stephen King, tells the story of a hitman who goes to a small town, waiting to perform his next hit (pictured 2017)

Upcoming movie: DiCaprio’s company Appian Way is behind the upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon which will also star the Titanic actor (pictured 2021)

DiCaprio is starring alongside Raging Bull star Robert De Niro, Breaking Bad’s Jesse Plemons and The Whale star Brendan Fraser. 

The movie is based on David Grann’s bestselling book of the same name and will come out on AppleTV+. 

Leo has several more movies coming out including one in which he will play Theodore Roosevelt and another in which he will play cult leader Jim Jones. 

Based on the book: The movie is based on David Grann’s bestselling book of the same name and will come out on AppleTV+