WINONA RYDER - BATTLE FOR LEARY BIOPIC

WINONA RYDER and LEONARDO DiCAPRIO are battling it out with DARREN ARONOFSKY to make the first biopic of counter-culture icon TIMOTHY LEARY. Ryder, Leary's god-daughter, and her father MICHAEL HOROWITZ, Leary's best friend, have signed to be creative consultants for a forthcoming project by DiCaprio's production company Appian Way. DiCaprio's father, comic book writer GEORGE DiCAPRIO was also a friend of the Harvard University professor and LSD pioneer. PI and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM filmmaker Aronofsky is also planning a biopic of Leary, who died in 1996 aged 75, writes the New York Daily News.