New Regency is currently trying to acquire the rights to a novel by Josh Bazell called Beat The Reaper, and they’re looking at it to be a star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio.

DiCaprio himself will produce, alongside Julie Yorn (Max Payne, The Devil’s Rejects) and Jennifer Davisson Killoran and will also be a co-production between Appian Way and a new production/ management company started by Ricky Yorn (who’s worked with DiCaprio before as producer on The Aviator and Gangs of New York).

The plot for the novel is:

A Manhattan emergency room doctor, whose life becomes complicated when a mobster recognizes the doc from his former life as a hitman who went into the witness protection program.