Spielberg and DiCaprio may reteam on Ulysses S. Grant biopic Deadline has learned that Academy Award winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg are currently in talks to work together again for the first time in over 15 years on a biopic about Union army General Ulysses S. Grant. The biopic is currently set at Lionsgate and Appian Way after the two picked up the film back in November with David James Kelly (Robin Hood) scripting the film.