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Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are set to team up once again. Scorsese will direct the adaptation of Erik Larson’s book The Devil in the White City, with DiCaprio in the starring role.
The Devil in the White City is a novelised account of a true story. In the late 1890s, H.H. Holmes built a hotel near a fairground for the specific purpose of luring in, and then murdering people, especially young women. The story follows Holmes and Daniel H. Burnham, the architect of the fairground, in an intertwining narrative.
DiCaprio bought the rights to the book back in 2010, and has been eager to play the titular role ever since. The last time the pair collaborated was for the raunchy 2013 drama The Wolf of Wall Street.
Billy Ray, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2013 for adapting Captain Phillips, will pen the script.
