According to The New York Daily News, Sly has decided to take Notorious, his biopic of the murder of rapper Biggie Smalls to HBO.

Stallone is set to play [and possibly direct] LA Police homicide Detective Russell Poole, who probed the rapper's still-unsolved murder and was the first to suggest that crooked cops might be behind it.

The Notorious BIG's death is currently a hot issue in LA due to the rapper's wrongful death trial.