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DiCaprio joins Reaper

The eternally-busy Leonardo DiCaprio (check out his IMDB Pro page – he has about twelve projects in various stages of development) will star in (I’m guessing sometime between now and 2020) New Regency’s “Beat the Reaper”, based on a novel of the same name.

The protagonist in the novel penned by Josh Bazell 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.

Julie Yorn will produce with DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran, says THR.

Amongst some of DiCarpio’s other projects in the pipeline – “Atari”, “Ninja Scroll”, “Akira”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”, “Fleming” and an untitled Michael Mann project.

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