You might wonder why Scorsese would be interested in the 19th century’s most prolific serial killer in The Devil in White City but what I think draws him to the project, other than working again with DiCaprio, is the opportunity to bring the World’s Fair to life. Amid the spectacle of the 1893 World’s Fair, brought to life by Daniel H. Burnham is another kind of architecture going on, that of H.H. Holmes who built a crazy kind of house of horrors where he committed untold numbers of murders and then sold the skeletons. It’s a fascinating story, but visually, it’s off the charts — I’m thinking Hugo meets Silence of the Lambs.
Paramount apparently won the rights after an intense bidding war between the five families.
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