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DiCaprio Tipped To Play Mobster-Doctor In New Movie

8 January 2009 11:02 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Leonardo DiCaprio is in line to play a hitman-turned-doctor in a new movie project.

Studio bosses are plotting to take Josh Bazell novel Beat the Reaper onto a big screen, and want the actor to take the lead.

If he agrees, DiCaprio will play a New York emergency room doctor in the witness protection programme, who is forced to confront his past when a fellow mobster recognises him. »

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