‘The Devil in the White City’ Coming with Scorsese and DiCaprio

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The big screen adaptation of Erik Larson’s best-selling true crime tale The Devil in the White City is on its way! Deadline is reporting that Paramount Pictures has picked up the rights to the novel with the plan being for a big screen adaptation with Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese. This would be the sixth movie that DiCaprio and Scorsese have made together. Academy Award nominee Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) will adapted the screenplay.

Published in 2003, The Devil in the White City is officially described by Crown Publishing as follows:

Their fates were linked by the magical Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, nicknamed the “White City” for its majestic beauty. Architect Daniel Burnham built it; serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes used it to lure victims to his World’s Fair Hotel, designed for murder. Both men left behind them a powerful legacy, one of brilliance and energy, the other of sorrow and darkness.

Here, then, is your ticket to the greatest fair in history—a place where incredible dreams came to life alongside darkest nightmares.

DiCaprio will play the part of the serial killer Mr. Holmes.

No word on release date as of yet but stay tuned for more updates.

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