The actor and director have wanted to film the true story of murders at the 1893 World’s Fair for more than a decade, and reports suggest it is back in pre-production
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Adapted from Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, it is about notorious murderer HH Holmes, who is alleged to have tortured and killed dozens of victims, mostly in his “Murder Castle” inin the 1890s in the run-up to the 1893 World’s Fair.
DiCaprio acquired the rights to Larson’s book in 2010, and Scorsese’s involvement was revealed in 2015, shortly after the pair had a substantial box office hit with the stocks trader comedy The Wolf of Wall Street. Although a script by Billy Ray had been completed, the film never materialised and in 2022, with Keanu Reeves in the lead role and Todd Field directing. It stalled again a year later after Reeves and Field left the project.
A finished film is not likely to appear soon. Deadline reports that no script is attached to the current version of the project, while Scorsese has– an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s novel A Life of Jesus and a biopic of singer Frank Sinatra – as well as Shipwrecks of Sicily, a documentary about marine archaeology. DiCaprio will next be seen in Paul Thomas Anderson’s as yet untitled new film, due out in August.
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