Leonardo DiCaprio to reunite with Martin Scorsese on years-in-the-making thriller Devil In The White City
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One of Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese's longest-gestating projects just got a major new boost. Their film adaptation of Erik Larson's 2004 nonfiction book The Devil In The White City now has the back of 20th Century Studios, sources told Deadline on Wednesday.
![[The movie, which would star DiCaprio and be directed by Scorsese, is adapted from Erik Larson's bestselling nonfiction crime tale The Devil In The White City, about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the serial killer H. H. Holmes]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/07/94422497-14316285-image-a-96_1737617630630.jpg)
According to the publication, DiCaprio is again in talks to star in the nonfiction serial killer thriller, while Scorsese is negotiating to direct the project. The movie follows their last collaboration, the acclaimed Western crime epic Killers Of The Flower Moon.
![[DiCaprio bought the rights back in 2010, and he and Scorsese were attached for Paramount before the project fell apart. Keanu Reeves later signed on to a Hulu limited series version directed by Todd Field, but that also fell apart in 2022; seen in 2019 in Santa Barbara, Calif.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/07/94422413-14316285-image-a-98_1737618092778.jpg)
Although the news is promising for fans of DiCaprio and Scorsese's many collaborations, they shouldn't get their hopes up too much, as the project has been in various stages of discussions since the Wolf Of Wall Street star bought the rights to the nonfiction history back in 2010.
![[DiCaprio most recently worked with Scorsese on the Oscar-nominated crime epic Killers Of The Flower Moon (pictured). Their collaborations have earned $1.3 billion over the years]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/07/94422991-14316285-image-a-100_1737618928891.jpg)
The film had previously been planned as a feature film at Paramount, with DiCaprio starring and Scorsese directing, but that version of the project fell through. Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese's long-gestation project Devil In The White City got a boost on Wednesday when Deadline reported that 20th Century Studios is moving forward with a film intended for theatrical exhibition; seen in 2023 in Las Vegas.
The movie, which would star DiCaprio and be directed by Scorsese, is adapted from Erik Larson's bestselling nonfiction crime tale The Devil In The White City, about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the serial killer H. H. Holmes. It was reconstituted as a limited series for Hulu in 2022, with Keanu Reeves set to star and Tár director Todd Field to helm the project, but that fell through just two months after it was announced when both exited the project.
