Leo DiCaprio And Martin Scorsese's Biopic Of An Infamous Murderer Is Coming To TV
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese's long-gestating film about the life of serial killer Henry Holmes and his infamous 'murder castle' in Chicago is now going to be a TV series instead.
Plans for The Devil in the White City stretch back as far as 2003, when DiCaprio was mooted to play Holmes, but it's not clear whether that's still the plan. The Independent reports that the series, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Erik Larsen, has been picked up by Hulu, will weave Holmes' story around that of architect and designer Daniel H Burnham who put together the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. DiCaprio and Scorsese are listed as executive producers.
The true story of Henry Holmes - also known as Henry Howard Holmes, or HH Holmes, but born Herman Webster Mudgett - and his murder house is one of those Wikipedia pages it's impossible to stop thinking about for a couple of days after you've read it. Holmes was a superficially charming doctor with a massive moustache who killed at least nine people and could plausibly have killed many, many more.
He was a bigamist and a con artist too, but the myth of his 'murder castle', a house which was purportedly full of booby traps, hidden passageways, soundproof rooms, mazy corridors, and trapdoors which dropped people into the building's basement in which he kept vats of acid and quicklime for getting rid of bodies.
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