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The Rock to co-author true crime book about Hawaii mob boss to be adapted by Martin Scorsese

Dwayne Johnson is working with investigative journalist Nick Bilton on the project, with a film in the pipeline starring Emily Blunt and Leonardo DiCaprio

Crown, the Penguin House imprint, has acquired rights to the as yet untitled book, which will “serve as an inspiration” for a film directed by Martin Scorsese, which is being scripted by Bilton and Johnson. The book will chronicle “the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of Hawaii’s most notorious crime syndicate, The Company, led by Wilford “Nappy” Pulawa, the first and only Hawaiian mob boss in history”. As well as echoing the themes of some of Scorsese’s best-known gangster films, the story appears to also share common ground with his most recent fictional feature, Killers of the Flower Moon, about the plight of the Osage people in 1920s America.

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