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Academy Award winners and longtime collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are reviving their film adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City at 20th Century Studios. The project has been in development hell since DiCaprio acquired the rights to the book in 2010.
According to reports, after previously abandoning the project — at one stage, it was being set up as a TV series at Hulu with Keanu Reeves set to star — Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are reuniting for a film adapation of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, a true story about a prolific serial killer at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
DiCaprio and Scorsese would also produce along with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn and DiCaprio’s Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson.
Sources add that there is currently no script for the pic, which is based on Larson’s nonfiction classic Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, first published in 2004.
DiCaprio and Scorsese have previously collaborated on six films together: Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Killers of the Flower Moon.