Two Hollywood filmmakers have revealed that they want Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr. to play Jalaluddin al-Rumi, a 13th-century Islamic scholar and poet, and Shams Tabrizi, credited as the man who spiritually guided Rumi and changed his life forever
And understandably, a lot of people are REALLY not happy about this.
David Franzoni and Stephen Joel Brown, two of the men behind the Oscar-winning film Gladiator told the Guardian that ‘they would like Leonardo DiCaprio to play Rumi, and Robert Downey Jr to star as Shams of Tabriz, though they said it was too… Read the full story
