Actor will star in biopic of Billy Milligan, a schizophrenic who successfully defended robbery and rape charges by arguing that the crimes were the work of two of his 24 personalities
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in the real life tale of a man acquitted of rape and robbery after convincing a jury that he had 24 different personalities, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Biopic The Crowded Room is one of Hollywood’s longest-gestating projects. Based on the life of Billy Milligan, reputedly the first person to successfully use multiple personality disorder as a defence in court, the film was first mooted in the early 1990s with James Cameron tipped to write and direct.
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