Jagger To Follow Up 'Vinyl' Flop With DiCaprio Starring Biopic

Legendary muso Mick Jagger isn't letting the massively-publicised flop of his HBO musical Vinyl stop him from dabbling with moving pictures.

It has now been announced that Jagger is teaming up with Leonardo DiCaprio (a recent muse of director Martin Scorsese who partnered with Jagger on the Vinyl disaster) to make a biopic about Sun Records founder Sam Phillips.

With DiCaprio likely to be playing Phillips, Jagger will soon be scouting for looka/soundalikes of the many artists that Phillips worked with over the years, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Howlin' Wolf and Jerry Lee Lewis.

According to Variety, DiCaprio's production company Appian Way secured the rights to the biography Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock'N'Roll.

Jagger, one of seven producers brought on board, will hopefully be looking at avoiding the pitfalls of Vinyl which was criticised for its lack of diversity and nepotism (James Jagger played a punk must in the now-axed cable series).

No writer has yet been attached to the project nor has a release date been pencilled in.