Martin Scorsese To Direct Leonardo DiCaprio As Serial Killer In ‘Devil In The White City’
Martin Scorsese’s list of upcoming projects grows ever longer, with him confirmed to be directing Devil In The White City at 20th Century Studios.
Landing the adaptation rights for the book Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America back in 2010, legendary actor Leonardo DiCaprio has been developing the project for some time alongside industry darling Martin Scorsese. At one point, the adaptation was fixed to be portrayed as a TV series over at Hulu, but plans for that fell through.
Now, following a meeting with executives at 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox), DiCaprio and Scorsese have brought their Devil in the White City to the studio for development. The story revolves around HH Holmes, a serial killer, who killed between 27 to 200 people at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. DiCaprio will play the serial killer, in a project that’s expected to “contrast between the hopeful expectations and wonders presented at the exposition and the dark deeds of Holmes, who maneuvered in its shadows.”

Scorsese currently has a wide range of projects in development, despite his old age, including the likes of adaptations of The Wager, a Frank Sinatra biography, a telling of the story of Jesus Christ, and an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s Home, which he is co-writing with Tár director Todd Field.
Leonardo DiCaprio will next appear in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Battle of Baktan Cross, which is set to hold a couple of test screenings this week. The movie is highly anticipated and rumoured to be a contemporary adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland.
Devil In The White City is set to be produced by Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, Scorsese and DiCaprio, and Jennifer Davisson, with the latter two producing for Appian Way.
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