It looks like Black Mass is back on the development block with Jim Sheridan set to direct the story about the notorious Boston mobster and FBI informant Whitey Bulger.

Sheridan is known for tackling rough Irish-themed true-life subjects such as  In the Name of the Father and The Boxer.

Sheridan will direct a script he and partner Nye Heron are writing based on “Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob,” a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill.

According to Variety, the story is straight out of the mobster turf where Bulger rose to prominence in Boston as a feared enforcer and built the Winter Hill Gang into an enterprise that did everything from selling drugs to procuring guns for the Irish Republican Army. His rise was helped by John Connolly, a childhood pal who became an FBI agent. Bulger disappeared 14 years ago, creating a major law enforcement scandal.