If they pull a knife, you pull a gun. If they send you to the dusty video store shelves, you send them back to the movie theater. If they killed everyone off in the first film, you do a prequel. That, apparently, is the Chicago way.

Director Brian De Palma is developing a new project that will have him looking back to "The Untouchables," the 1987 blockbuster that gave Kevin Costner A-list status, Sean Connery an Oscar and Andy Garcia enough fame to survive "Steal Big, Steal Little." Nominated for four Oscars overall, the David Mamet-scripted film was based on the classic television series that dramatically embellished the real-life tale of Eliot Ness, a federal agent who recruited a small force of ethical men to take down mob boss Al Capone.

Currently titled "The Untouchables: Capone Rising," the movie will give Chicago's legendary tax-evading Mafioso the Anakin Skywalker treatment, exploring a time when Capone possessed less power and less girth, but presumably more hair. "Rounders" writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien are working on the script, which details Capone's arrival in Chicago and initial encounter with Johnny Malone, the Irish cop portrayed by Connery in the original film.

"Training Day" director Antoine Fuqua was originally attached to direct the Paramount Pictures film, but De Palma has since taken over the job after expressing an interest in revisiting one of his most critically and theatrically successful films. The 64-year-old talent behind "Scarface" and "Carrie" hopes to get the prequel into production sometime next year. No word yet on whether any of the original cast members will participate, or whether Robert De Niro would be interested in rendering himself even more unrecognizable this time around to portray a younger Capone.

If the studio is thinking of casting a younger actor for the part, we respectfully offer Mr. De Niro this advice: You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

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