Scorsese, DiCaprio to produce 'Devil in the White City' as Hulu series

[Blader]

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/de...leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-1203135780/

Hulu is developing a series based on the book "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America" by Erik Larson.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese will executive produce the project along with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, Emma Koskoff, and Jennifer Davisson. Paramount Television will produce.

"The Devil in the White City" tells true story of two men, an architect and a serial killer, whose fates were forever linked by The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: Daniel H. Burnham, a brilliant and fastidious architect racing to mark his mark on the world and Henry H. Holmes, a handsome and cunning doctor who fashioned his own pharmaceutical "Murder Castle" on the fair grounds.

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Still interested in this, but a little disappointed now that it won't be a full-fledged Scorsese movie with DiCaprio leading. Although hopefully Scorsese is still involved to direct at least a few episodes, or maybe even all if it's a limited series.

 

[Deleted member 13496]

As long as those two are both on board still I'm very very down.

 

[2ndTuXx]

"Produce"

Not writing, directing, or acting

 

[The Albatross]

Nice, really loved the book. I remember when I read it, thinking to myself, "This can't possibly have happened this way..." And... well, it did.

 

[Neutra]

yes, finally! makes much more sense to do it as a series instead of a movie.

 

[vacantseas]

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/de...leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-1203135780/



Still interested in this, but a little disappointed now that it won't be a full-fledged Scorsese movie with DiCaprio leading. Although hopefully Scorsese is still involved to direct at least a few episodes, or maybe even all if it's a limited series.

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I feel like this is better suited to a miniseries.

 

[BringBackSonics]

Eh. Although not writing/directing. They are producing, so you have to think they will keep that stuff tight.

 

[fontguy]

Ugh. Really wanted a movie.

 

[WaluigiTime]

Somehow I read this as Devil May Cry.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

So the movie is cancelled

RIP

 

[Deleted member 17402]

Yes! I have about 100 pages to spare in this book, maybe less, but everything I read was great. Admittedly my interest would wane whenever the author went into increasing detail of the landscape at the time - which was often - and I always pictured what I was reading to be perfect for TV. Can't wait.

 

[Meg Cherry]

So the movie is cancelled

RIP

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Eh, it was easy to assume the film had been cancelled for awhile now. I'm currently just happy it's happening at all.

Surprised this is going to Hulu though, after Netflix wrote Scorsese a blank check for The Irishman.

 

[mjc]

Not interested now that these shifts have occurred.

 

[Ragnorok64]

Did anyone else read this as "Devil in the White House"?

I was confused as I was reading the description.

 

[Ryaaan14]

This deserved a movie

Hulu series is basically the same as it getting scrapped

 

[dancingphlower]

Welp my interest has dropped a bit.

 

[SPRidley]

As a huge fan of the book, and strangely, more the architects part than the murder part, im incredibly dissapointed this isnt going to be a movie, and that they are going to use shitty hulu that doesnt exist in the majority of the planet (at least use netflix).

But at the same time maybe it works better than a movie, theres a ton of things that i dont know if it would have been well translated into movie format. The bad thing is that I dont know how I will be able to watch it.

 

[Ocean Bones]

Is Scorsese gonna direct an episode and then bail out the rest of the series?

 

[WhySoDevious]

I read that as "Devil in the White House"

"Oh, a Trump movie by Scorsese," I thought.

Disappointed that it wasn't... and yet still intrigued by the real series.

 

[BashNasty]

Loved the book, it's been a few years so I should really reread it. I think it'll make for great TV!

 

[CreepingFear]

Disappointed, but still giving it a shot if it can be Handmaid's Tale quality.