Leo Runs With Reaper

Josh Bazell 's recently-published novel "Beat the Reaper" is coming to the big screen as a starring vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio says Variety.



DiCaprio plays an Manhattan emergency room doctor, whose life becomes threatened when a mobster recognizes him from his former life as a hit man who went into the witness protection program.

Julie Yorn will produce with DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran through the actor's Appian Way Productions.

Though Leo's on familiar ground here...Still sounds like it could be good...