The story revolves around four middle-aged friends who have lost interest in their teaching job.

The actor's production banner already has two projects set up at Apple TV Plus.

The book follows a cynical journalist shipwrecked on a fictional utopian island.

The documentary was released on Netflix in 2014 and had picked up an Oscar nomination in 2015.

The film marks DiCaprio's ninth project in which he plays a real life character.

Ewing, in his book, will investigate how a "more, better, faster" ethos fueled one of the greatest frauds in corporate history.

The drama examines the power the Wall Street era had on the mafia and the FBI.