Field left the project a couple of days later. In October 2022, Reeves left the production without comment. Production and filming were expected to begin March 2023 in Chicago and Toronto, with the series expected to launch in 2024. It was announced in January 2022 that actor Keanu Reeves was in negotiations to star in the series and Todd Field would direct the first two episodes.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese were signed on to executive produce. In 2019, Hulu began developing a series based on the book. The film version, as originally planned, would have been directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Billy Ray, and produced jointly by Paramount Pictures, Double Feature Films, and DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions. Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the film rights to the book in 2010. In 2007, a television documentary inspired by the book titled Madness in the White City aired on the National Geographic Channel. Regarding the discussion of Holmes in the book, he writes that Larson’s "imaginative touches…sometimes goes farther than the sources warrant". ĭavid Traxel for the New York Times criticized Larson for having "little sense of pacing or focus" in the "grab-bag" approach he took when discussing the exhibition. Janet Maslin of the New York Times praised the book as "vivid" and "lively", and commented on how the research done by Larson on the many "odd and amazing" events of the 1893 exhibition are "given shape and energy" by his "dramatic inclinations". Holmes, a serial killer who lured his victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed "Murder Castle".
The book interweaves the true tales of Daniel Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World's Fair, and H. The Devil in the White City is divided into four parts, the first three happening in Chicago between 18, while part four of the book takes place in Philadelphia circa 1895.
The concept has since been in development hell in March 2023, Hulu announced they would no longer be pursuing a television series using the rights.
Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the film rights in 2010. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United States. Set in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style.
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