‘Suicide Squad’ star Jared Leto to play ’60s artist in biopic

In this March 2, 2014, file photo, Jared Leto poses in the press room with the award for best actor in a supporting role for “Dallas Buyers Club” during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.  AP

Jared Leto is all ready to conquer a new role as Andy Warhol in a biopic film.

The ever-diabolic “Joker” from “Suicide Squad”  is collaborating with Michael De Luca and Terence Winter to breathe life into the artistic career of Andy Warhol, a key figure in the visual art movement during the ’60s and ’70s. According to The Hollywood Reporter , Leto, 44, will also co-produce the film alongside De Luca, who produced true-to-life movies like “The Social Network” and “Captain Phillips.”

The film will be based on the biography novel “Warhol: The Biography,” written by Victor Bockris in 1989.

Warhol was a hypochondriac “pop art master” who dignified American consumerism into a worshiped art piece—just like how he transformed Campbell cans and soft drink bottles into masterpieces. He was an openly gay artist who created his precious studio, The Factory, and nested many Hollywood socialites, drag queens, younger artists and musicians.

He died in 1987 after suffering from gallbladder complications.

Aside from starring in “Suicide Squad,” Leto recently appeared as a gay man with AIDS in the 2013 film “Dallas Buyers Club,” for which portrayal he received an Oscar award. Gianna Francesca Catolico

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