Will DiCaprio attempt to BEAT THE REAPER?

by Matt Holmes

New Regency have bought the rights to Josh Bazell's novel BEAT THE REAPER, hoping to attract Leonardo DiCaprio to commit to the lead role according to Variety. beat-the-reaper The revenge thriller novel shares similarites with A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE...

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.
The novel has one of those great personal stories in that author Bazell was working as a medical intern working night shifts as several publishers waged a seven-figure war over the rights of his first novel. DiCaprio has just finished filming his role in Scorsese's SHUTTER ISLAND and is weighing up the options on what his next feature could be.
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.