Oh. What’s going on here? Are Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio reuniting to do another movie together?
If you’ve kept up, you know that the duo have been developing something for years.
That something is a film adaptation of Erik Larson’s bestselling book The Devil In The White City. DiCaprio obviously to star. Scorsese to direct. And both potentially on board as producers. Stats guy wants you to know that Larson’s book was first published in 2004.
Set in Chicago, it’s the story of two men during the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, also known as the World’s Fair. One is the Fair’s architect, Daniel Burnham, and the other is Dr. H.H. Holmes, known as America’s first modern serial killer.
DiCaprio has had rights to the book since 2010, and has been working with Scorsese in the years since. There was talk of doing a TV series adaptation starring Keanu Reeves, but that didn’t happen. Or, hasn’t happened ’cause you never know, right?
As you know, Scorsese and DiCaprio have worked together in the past: Gangs Of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf Of Wall Street, and, most recently, the multiple Oscar-nominated crime drama Killers Of The Flower Moon.
This new project sounds very interesting. The first modern day serial killer? Count me in!
What’s DiCaprio’s best role? Scorsese’s best movie?
