Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are reunited again to do a new movie project. After a long wait, the two would finally do the dream role of DiCaprio in a crime movie.
Just Jared says that Leonardo DiCaprio Martin Scorsese have been working together in more than one project. The last project that they did together was "The Wolf Of Wall Street" in 2013. Prior to that, they had teamed up for the movies like "Shutter Island," "Gangs of New York," "The Departed," and "The Aviator."
According to the report, Paramount Pictures has been in the works of "The Devil in the White City" for over a decade, and Leonardo DiCaprio has already been attached to the movie project since 2010 sine he bought the rights. Now the studio, who won the auction, has finally moved forward.
It has been said that Paramount bought the rights twice from the author. First in 2004, but the rights had lapsed while it was in the works under the Cruise/Wagner Production. Then in 2007, paramount bought again the rights and set up the project with a different producers, the team up of Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher. Finally in 2010, DiCaprio under his Appian Way Productions bought the rights. Billy Ray- who wrote "Captain Phillips" and "The Hunger Games"- will pen the script of the movie.
From the report of Variety, it says that Leonardo will be playing the role of H.H Holmes, the serial killer who mostly murdered young single women. Dr. Holmes is associated to 200 murders, although he only admitted that he only killed 27 people. The setting of the story was in Chicago in 1893.
The plot of "The Devil in the White City" revolves around "the intertwining stories of fair architect Daniel H. Burnham and Holmes, who used a hotel he built near the fairgrounds to lure his victims." The movie is an adaptation of the book written by Erik Larson, entitled "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America."
BBC reports that this is Dicaprio's darkest role yet. However, the Academy Award winner has been said to do this kind of role for quite a long time. So this movie adaptation is a dream come true for Leo.