Untitled film adapted from the book satan in the White City will be the duo’s follow-up to acclaimed 2013 biographical black comedy The Wolf of Wall StreetMartin Scorsese will direct Leonardo DiCaprio as prolific 19th-century serial killer Dr HH Holmes after studio Paramount won a huge Hollywood bidding war for the project,reports Deadline.
The long-gestating film – DiCaprio has been eyeing a film about the Chicago mass assassin since at least 2010 – will become the pair’s sixth collaboration after Gangs Of original York, The Aviator, and The Departed,Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street. It will be based on Erik Larson’s acclaimed 2003 non-fiction book The satan in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the just That Changed America, and which DiCaprio bought the rights to five years ago and has now been adapted by the screenwriter of Captain Phillips,Billy Ray.
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Source: theguardian.com