Devil in the White City may finally be getting made.
According to Deadline, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are in talks to star in and direct, respectively, the film adaptation of Erik Larson‘s bestselling book of the same name for 20th Century Studios. DiCaprio and Scorsese would also produce along with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, and DiCaprio’s Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson. No screenwriter is attached at this time.
Set in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, The Devil in the White City tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. H. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United States.
DiCaprio has had the film rights since 2010. A television series based on the book was almost made in the early 2020s for Hulu, with Keanu Reeves attached to star, but the project fell apart after Reeves and director Todd Field departed.
If the project comes to fruition, it would mark DiCaprio and Scorsese’s seventh film together, after Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
We’ll keep you posted as more details become available.
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