Leonardo DiCaprio has entered into talks to star in Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Devil in the White City’ which 20th Century Studios have boarded.
As yet, the feature has yet to find a screenwriter to board the project however, the story is based on Erik Larson’s bestselling 2004 book “Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America.” The book follows Dr. H.H. Holmes, a serial killer who used the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago to lure his victims to their deaths.
The story had been planned to be made into a series at Hulu with Keanu Reeves set to star but has now been scrapped.
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Scorsese and DiCaprio will also produce alongside Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn and DiCaprio’s Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson.
The project has been raring to go for the past 15 years when DiCaprio and his Appian Way Productions acquired the rights in 2010 with plans to adapt it as a film in which he would star as Holmes. Scorsese boarded the project in 2015 to direct but it has been sat in gestation ever since, until now.
