Following the departure of star Keanu Reeves in 2022, Hulu has halted development on The Devil in the White City series starring Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. Reeves left the film after director Todd Field left, and the series is currently going through a major shake-up, although the film may not be dead.
A source said Diversity that there are plans in the works to buy The Devil in the White City for other potential homes, although no names were mentioned in the report.
Based on hollywood reporterJeremy Allen White (The Bear) and Jude Law (The Two Popes) are likely to join the project to star, with Matt Ross (American Pyscho) tipped to direct the next version of the show.
Based on the book by Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City tells the story of visionary architect Daniel H. Burnham and serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes in 1893 against the backdrop of the World’s Fair. Chicago world that year. Reeves was set to play Burnham, but no actor signed up to play Holmes.
DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions purchased the film rights in 2010, and the original plan was to adapt the book into a film featuring DiCaprio as Holmes, with Scorsese directing. That never happened, and the series, which became a TV series, is now plagued with problems of its own.
Holmes built a house, called Murder Castle, has everything it takes to kill people and hide evidence. His killing career culminated in the 1983 World’s Fair.
Scorsese and DiCaprio have worked together many times before on the films The Departed and The Wolf of Wall Street. They will collaborate again on this year’s Killers of the Flower Moon, with DiCaprio starring and Scorsese directing.
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