Leonardo DiCaprio‘s last outing with a Dennis Lehane adaptation (Shutter Island) not only made room for a career-best performance, but also led to what was, in my humble view, a near-masterpiece of a film. So even though the one up for discussion today probably won’t nab Martin Scorsese twixt now and the start of production, it’s almost inherently obvious that something valuable can be mined from this collaboration.

Anyway, Deadline reports that DiCaprio and his production company, Appian Way, will collaborate with Warner Bros. on Live By Night, a big-screen take on Lehane‘s October-bound novel of the same name. This, interestingly enough, means they’re also adapting a sequel to his 2008 book, The Given Day, which focused on two men living in Boston around the end of World War I; DiCaprio would likely play Irish cop Danny Coughlin, a character now in the midst of Prohibition.