Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx are gearing up for a mini Django Unchained reunion. The two have just been set to co-star in an upcoming adaptation of an unreleased novel.
Warner Bros. announced today that Foxx and DiCaprio are attached to an adaptation of the S. Craig Zahler crime novel, Mean Business on North Ganson Street, which is currently being shopped to publishers.
Mean Business will provide a very different dynamic for DiCaprio and Foxx, who took on Quentin Tarantino’s bloody revenge tale. Foxx played liberated slave, Django and DiCaprio played eccentric plantation owner Calvin Candie.
According to Deadline, the novel follows the story of a hardened detective (DiCaprio) who is disgraced after he grossly mishandles a case involving a missing person. He informs the missing woman’s husband that his wife is a hooker who more than likely made off with his money. Tragedy follows and leads to the detective’s transfer to an unsavory Missouri town.
There, he meets another disgraced detective (Foxx) who becomes his new partner. When officers start turning up dead around them, the two believe a conspiracy might be afoot.
Zahler will write the screenplay for the film, but there is no word yet on a director.
Zahler is currently directing another one of his scripts, Bone Tomahawk. That film stars Kurt Russell and Timothy Olyphant and is due out in 2014.
DiCaprio will be a producer along with his Appian Way partner, Jennifer Davison Killoran.
This acquisition for Warner Bros. is the first big move from worldwide production president Greg Silverman, who was promoted earlier this week. Silverman actually acquired Zahler’s first screenplay, 2011’s Asylum Blackout.
There is no word yet on when production will get underway on the project.
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