Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese Team Up for Devil in the White City
Award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese have teamed up numerous times in the past, and their output is almost always entertaining. After a serious bidding war over author Erik Larson’s book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Deadline reports that DiCaprio and Scorsese will team up one more time.
Paramount ended up snagging rights to the flick after tossing quite a bit of cash at the property. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way will produce the adaptation, while Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, State of Play) will handle scripting duties. This one is shaping up quite nicely.
Deadline explains what The Devil in the White City is all about.
DiCaprio will play Dr. HH Holmes, a cunning serial killer believed to have murdered anywhere from 27 to 200 people at a time when the city of Chicago was enthralled with hosting the World’s Fair of 1893. Holmes constructed The World’s Fair Hotel, an inn more lethal than the Bates Motel, especially for young single women. The sociopath used charm and guile to lure guests into what became known as a “murder castle,” a haunt that had a gas chamber, crematorium and a dissecting table where Holmes would murder his victims and strip their skeletons to sell for medical and scientific study.
DiCaprio has reportedly wanted to tackle this book for quite some time. After a very long wait and a seven-figure deal to secure the rights, it seems he’s finally getting his chance.
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