Leonardo DiCaprio to star and produce in 'The Black Hand'

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By Darian Scalamoni

            Leonardo DiCaprio has been racking up potential projects ever since his Oscar win about a year ago for his performance in The Revenant. Well according to The Playlist, we can add another project to his slate as DiCaprio is set to star and produce in an adaptation of Stephen Talty’s upcoming book, The Black Hand.

            The book, which has yet to be released is based on a true story and follows a cop from New York City in the beginning of the 20^th century trying to take down the gangsters from The Black Hand. Leo will play the lead, Joseph Petrosino in what’s being described as an “Italian Sherlock Holmes”. It sure sounds like a different project for the Oscar-winner and no matter what he stars in next, I’ll be first in line to see him dominate on screen. Currently, there is no screenwriter or director attached yet so this could take a little while to get in front of cameras.

            DiCaprio has also been attached to a multitude of other films in recent months including a Sam Phillips biopic, The Devil in the White City that could reunite him with Martin Scorsese and The Crowded Room in which Leo has been attached for almost a year now where he’d play a man who develops 24 separate personalities, similar to the recent M. Night Shyamalan film, Split.