Leonardo DiCaprio up for Dennis Lehane adaptation Live By Night

Leonardo DiCaprio has added another possible starring project to his impossibly busy schedule: Dennis Lehane adaptation Live By Night .

Warner Bros has nabbed the option, and DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way, is producing.

The novel, which goes on sale later this year, is a Prohibition-era period piece, featuring characters from Lehane's earlier novel The Given Day according to Deadline 's report.

DiCaprio's next project is expected to be The Wolf Of Wall Street with Martin Scorsese (which would make it their fifth film together). Also on his plate is Todd Field's Creed Of Violence , though that's yet to be confirmed.

He'll next be seen in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , and Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby (another Prohibition-era tale).

We'll always keep a close eye on any DiCaprio project, but considering how his last Lehane adaptation ( Shutter Island ) turned out, we feel its safe to get reasonably over-excited about this one…

Matt Maytum
Editor, Total Film

I'm the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I've worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at 12DOVE, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.