Maybe his heart will go on, but how about his thumbs?

The word bounding out of Hollywood this week is that “Titanic”-star Leonardo DiCaprio is intent on doing a gaming-related pic about Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese’s pizza chain. DiCaprio would star as the entrepreneur and, Game Guy presumes, bring a little of the on-screen spice he demonstrated in such flicks as “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” and “The Basketball Diaries.”

Bushnell, 65, is a living legend in the gaming world, having started Atari in 1972 on just $500 and then selling the company six years later for $28 million. Among Bushnell’s early hires, the story goes, were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who later went on to invent the Apple computer.

Also under Bushnell’s watch, Atari developed the equally legendary “Pong” video game — thus setting the course for Game Guy’s somewhat narrowly defined life.

Not much else about the Bushnell bio pic is known at this point, but if Celine Dion winds up on this soundtrack, too, be afraid. Be very afraid.

(Photo of DiCaprio courtesy of the Internet Movie Database)