Back in 2002, director Martin Scorsese found a brand new muse in Leonardo DiCaprio – and in the 13 years since they have collaborated on a total of five feature films.
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Deadline reports that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will continue their bromance with the project, with Billy Ray (“Shattered Glass“, “Captain Phillips”) tasked with writing the script. The true story is a fascinating one, with the book recounting the depraved acts of a deadly serial killer as it plays out against the backdrop of the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair, and how the event quickly transformed the mid-sized city into a bustling, chaotic metropolis – the ideal playground for a murderer. Paramount has won an auction to purchase the film rights to The Devil in The White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, a nonfiction book by author Erik Larson which was published in 2003. Holmes designed The World’s Fair Hotel as a place where he could lure his victims before murdering them.
DiCaprio will play Holmes, who was believed to have murdered anywhere from 27-200 people during the excitement surrounding the hosting of The World’s Fair in 1893. Larson’s book reveals how he invited his victims into a “murder castle” containing a gas chamber, crematorium and dissecting table.
With luck, this will finally start moving quickly and DiCaprio can pencil in a date to team up with Scorsese once again. Ray has been working with DiCaprio and Davisson as he wrote the script for The Ballad Of Richard Jewell, the film that will star Jonah Hill.
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DiCaprio and Scorsese have made Gangs Of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island and The Wolf Of Wall Street together. WME also reps Scorsese CAA and attorney Peter Nichols rep Ray.
