Peter Rabbit and Goodbye Christopher Robin’s Domhnall Gleeson, has entered into final talks with New Line to star in the female comic adaptation of The Kitchen.

The film which is adapted from the DC/Vertigo female crime comic book series is set in Hell’s Kitchen, New York in the 1970s. The story follows the wives of Irish mobsters, Kath, Raven, and Angie, who end up taking over the criminal enterprise after their husbands are imprisoned. The women turn out to be more vicious than the men.

Gleeson would play Gabriel O’Malley, a Vietnam vet turned hitman who skips town to avoid the police, then returns to settle scores when the wives take over. Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Margo Martindale have already been lined up to star.

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The comic series synopsis reads;

Times Square is a haven for sex and drugs. The city teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, while blackouts can strike at any moment. This is the world of THE KITCHEN.

The Irish gangs of Hell’s Kitchen rule the neighbourhood, bringing terror to the streets and doing the dirty work for the Italian Mafia. Jimmy Brennan and his crew were the hardest bastards in the Kitchen, but after they’re all put in prison, their wives – Kath, Raven and Angie – decide to keep running their rackets. And once they get a taste of the fast life and easy money, it won’t be easy to stop.

THE KITCHEN takes one of the most popular genres of entertainment and, like The Sopranos reimagines it for a new generation to present a classic gangster story told from a fresh point of view.

The story originated in an eight-issue Vertigo Comics miniseries from Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle, it went on to gain a fan following and critical acclaim.

Straight Outta Compton co-writer Andrea Berloff makes her directorial debut and Michael De Luca is producing. Filming is due to commence in May 2018.