Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley Scott seem to be getting along famously.
The Oscar-nominated duo, who recently wrapped the political thriller Body of Lies, are planning to reteam on the dark drama The Low Dwellers, which they will coproduce and most likely star in and direct, respectively.
Sources told the Hollywood Reporter that the script by first-time scribe Brad Ingelsby, which supposedly echoes the tone of No Country for Old Men and likeminded gritty yet cerebral thrillers, was snatched up for $650,000 by Relativity Media.
DiCaprio is attached to play an excon just out of jail who's trying to rejoin society but is being hounded by a figure from his past looking to settle a score. In addition to the cat and mouse, a third male character and a female lead also figure prominently into the plot.
Scott just finished shooting Body of Lies, the filmmaker's third collaboration with screenwriter William Monahan, in which DiCaprio is a journalist turned government operative on the trail of an Al Qaeda leader in the Middle East at the behest of Russell Crowe's CIA boss.
And apparently everyone involved, no matter how esteemed, is happy to return to a set where everybody knows their name.
Before Scott and DiCaprio set sail on their new project, DiCaprio is set to appear in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, the actor's fourth turn in front of the camera for The Departed Oscar winner, and Scott will direct Crowe in Nottingham.