‘Devil In The White City’ Still Happening With Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio, Says Producer Stacey Sher – Everything You Need To Know

‘Devil In The White City’ Still Happening With Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio, Says Producer Stacey Sher – Everything You Need To Know

Producer Stacey Sher gave Deadline the latest update along what has been the very winding road to adapting Erik Larson’s bestselling non-fiction classic, The Devil in the White City, for the screen. The project has been in various stages of development since before Deadline revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio had bought the film rights to the book in 2010. He subsequently set it up as a feature at Paramount with Scorsese to direct and himself to s…

Scorsese & DiCaprio 'Devil In The White City' Confirmed by Producer

Recently, Stacey Sher, a producer, provided Deadline with an update on the difficult journey of adapting Erik Larson’s well-known nonfiction book The Devil in the White City to film. This project has been in development purgatory for over ten years, and it tells a dark story of the ignominious serial killer Dr. HH Holmes during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This writer's venture began when Leonardo DiCaprio bought the film ri…