The Satan within the White Metropolis film has been resurrected, with Leonardo DiCaprio in talks to star and Martin Scorsese in talks to direct.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have been creating a film adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Satan within the White Metropolis for the previous decade. Throughout that point, the undertaking reworked from a film right into a TV collection, with varied actors and administrators hooked up. Plainly the undertaking has come full circle as Deadline experiences that twentieth Century Studios has snagged the undertaking, with DiCaprio in talks to star and Scorsese in talks to direct.
The Satan within the White Metropolis tells the story of Daniel H. Burnham, “a visionary architect who sets out to mark history with the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and Dr. H. Holmes, America’s first modern serial killer and the man behind the notorious ‘Murder Castle’ that was built in the shadow of the Fair.” DiCaprio and Scorsese, together with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, and Jennifer Davisson, would additionally produce the undertaking.
The Satan within the White Metropolis was initially arrange as a film in 2015. Nonetheless, Hulu introduced in 2019 that they’d as an alternative be creating the undertaking as an eight-episode restricted collection. Keanu Reeves (John Wick: Chapter 4) signed on to star, with Todd Subject (Tar) set to direct, however they each dropped out. Simply previous to Hulu pulling the plug, it was reported that the producers have been nearing offers with Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) and Jude Regulation (Incredible Beasts: The Crimes of Dumbledore) to star within the collection and have been Matt Ross (Captain Incredible) to direct.
I’ve been trying ahead to this undertaking for a while, and I’ll be holding my fingers crossed that it truly will get off the bottom. I’m certain it will have achieved simply advantageous as a TV collection, however it’s arduous to go mistaken with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio on the large display. The pair clearly get pleasure from working collectively. Ought to the undertaking transfer ahead, it will be their seventh function movie collectively after Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Road, and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Do you suppose The Satan within the White Metropolis film will truly occur this time?
