Earlier this week we reported that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are teaming up again, this time to tell the real-life story of America’s first serial killer, Henry H. Holmes. Both men will also be executive producing. Today, we have an update.
The Hulu series is based on the best-selling book “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness” penned by Erik Lason. It follows “two men, one an architect, and the other Holmes, whose fates were forever linked by The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893: Daile H. Burnham, a brilliant and fastidious architect racing to make his mark on the world and Henry H. Holmes, a handsome and cunning doctor who fashioned his own pharmaceutical “Murder Castle” on the fairgrounds.”
DiCaprio acquired the rights to the book nearly a decade ago. Now, the series is official, naming DiCaprio as playing the infamous H.H. Holmes.
Paramount Television will produce, with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, Emma Koskoff, and Jennifer Davisson executive producing along with DiCaprio and Scorsese.
