Leonardo Dicaprio Rumi Biopic

Leonardo DiCaprio May Play Persian Poet Rumi in Upcoming Biopic

Rumi was a Sufi - a discipline of Islam - master who was born in what would become modern-day Afghanistan. He spent much of his life traveling around the area before being buried in what would be modern-day Turkey. "There are a lot of reasons we're making a product like this right now," said David Franzoni