Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell, Against All Logic
Before I go into the details of this story, here’s the background. Here’s what Leonardo DiCaprio looks like:
And here’s what Atari founder Nolan Bushnell looked like back in his ’70s heydey (he looks like an off-duty mall Stana Claus nowadays):
So when I tell you that Leonardo DiCaprio is going to play Nolan Bushnell in a movie about the founding of Atari, you should recognize Bushnell having won the fucking bio-pic lottery. Bushnell’s not hideous, but c’mon?DiCaprio? We might as well cast DiCaprio as Abraham Lincoln, or maybe Moe in a biography of the Three Stooges.
Still, I’ll watch the shit out of this movie.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.