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Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions has teamed up with ‘Zindagi Na Milega Dobara’ star Abhay Deol’s Canada-based content creation company, Blisspoint Entertainment, and Singapore’s Golden Ratio Films to make ‘Pep’, a biopic of the legendary mid-20th century featherweight boxer Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep.
The project was developed by Blisspoint, a company created two years ago by Abhay Deol and Mumbai-based producer Ratan Ginwalla. The third partner in the film set in 1965, Golden Ratio Films, had previously produced the French English-language movie, ‘The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir’ (2018), starring Dhanush, the Tamil star.
Pep, on whom Abhay Deol & Leonardo DiCaprio’s film is based on, according to Variety.com, had an extraordinarily long career spanning 26 years and nearly 2,000 rounds of boxing as a professional. The film charts one of Pep’s comebacks, as he finds himself riddled with debt while supporting a wife half his age and a drug addict son in a single-family home.
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