Legendary Team DiCaprio & Scorsese to Join Again for DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

When it was announced in 2010 that Leonardo DiCaprio had purchased the rights to The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, the book based on America’s first serial killer Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, moviegoers and critics alike cheered at the prospect of DiCaprio acting in another horror/thriller. With Shutter Island and Inception under his belt that same year, he was the perfect candidate to take on such a legendary topic and such a critically-acclaimed book.

When Deadline got the exclusive that DiCaprio would undertake the film with legendary director Martin Scorsese at the helm, it made fans go wild. Who better than these two to take on a story about a man who literally built a murder hotel so he could torture and sell the bodies of his suspected 200 victims during the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago?

This film will join their previous five projects Shutter Island, Gangs of New York, Aviator, The Departed, and the most recent The Wolf of Wall Street.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is the story of Dr. H. H. Holmes, America’s first admitted serial killer who confessed to 27 murders and stated that he sold their bodies to science for money. In order to facilitate these murders, Holmes built a large hotel called his “murder castle,” which held many trap rooms including the stretcher, the rack, a gas chamber and secret chutes that fed an oven to dispose of evidence.

The movie will be adapted by Billy Ray, who did the film adaptations of The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips, and will feature DiCaprio as Dr. H. H. Holmes.

No release date has been announced yet.