MUMBAI: Followed by Rober De Niro‘s rejection of the role, Al Pacino has been signed to play a stellar role in Son Of No One, a police thriller starring Channing Tatum.

The script, written by director Dito Montiel, centres on a young cop who is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighbourhood where he grew up with an old secret surfacing and threatening to destroy his life and family.

Terrence Howard, Ray Liotta and Katie Holmes are soon to join the cast. Shooting on the film is scheduled to begin in New York on 22 March.

Pacino‘s recent credits include 2008‘s Righteous Kill and 2007‘s Ocean‘s Thirteen.