 In 2017, Paramount announced that it has acquired the movie rights for an English language adaptation of "The Black Hand", which will star DiCaprio as turn of the 20th century police officer Joe Petrosino.Later that year, Paramount won a bidding war against Universal Pictures for the rights to adapt Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo da Vinci.The studio bought the rights under its deal with DiCaprio's Appian Way, which said that it planned to produce the film with DiCaprio as the star.