Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio‘s long-in-development adaptation of Satan within the White Metropolis may need lastly discovered a brand new dwelling. Primarily based on the 2003 novel Satan within the White Metropolis: Homicide, Magic, and Insanity on the Honest That Modified America by writer Erik Larson, DiCaprio and Scorsese have been eying a movie adaptation of the story for over a decade with many false begins and abrupt stops over time. Now it appears they’ve discovered a brand new associate in Disney of all studios, or extra particularly, twentieth Century Footage.
Deadline reviews that twentieth Century Footage joined Satan within the White Metropolis with DiCaprio in talks to star and Martin Scorsese being eyed to direct. DiCaprio and Scorsese are signed on as producers alongside Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, and Jennifer Davisson. No script for the movie is full. twentieth Century Studios intends to provide the movie a big-screen theatrical launch.
DiCaprio and his manufacturing firm, Appian Approach, acquired the rights to the novel in 2010, the identical yr he and Scorsese’s Shutter Island opened in theaters. Set in Chicago through the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, Satan within the White Metropolis tells the story of legal determine H. H. Holmes, extensively thought of the primary serial killer in the US, and World’s Honest architect Daniel Burnham. After years in improvement hell, it appeared like Satan within the White Metropolis lastly constructed momentum as Keanu Reeves was set to star in a Hulu Authentic Sequence directed by Todd Fields. But the venture fell aside in October 2022 after Reeves departed the sequence, and in March 2023, it was confirmed to be scrapped at Hulu.
Will ‘Satan within the White Metropolis’ Be Scorsese and DiCaprio’s Seventh Movie Collectively?
With no script for Satan within the White Metropolis prepared, Scorsese will possible prioritize one in every of his different introduced movie initiatives first. Scorsese and DiCaprio have already got two different initiatives lined up collectively, which might be their seventh collaboration. The primary is The Wager for Apple Studios, an adaptation of David Grann’s non-fiction novel of the identical title. DiCaprio was set to star as Frank Sinatra in Scorsese’s long-in-development ardour venture, Sinatra, however the venture, together with a brand new film in regards to the lifetime of Jesus Christ, has since been delayed indefinitely. It was additionally just lately introduced that he was growing an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Marilynne Robinson’s House. What movie Scorsese will direct subsequent stays to be seen.
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That is additionally a promising transfer for twentieth Century Studios and its subsidiary Searchlight Footage, which have been on a sizzling streak currently. In 2024, titles like Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Alien: Romulus, and A Full Unknown have been all field workplace hits that earned sturdy opinions from critics and have made them a significant a part of the Walt Disney Firm. Offering extra adult-oriented movies from high-caliber expertise that may not mesh with the studio’s conventional household fare has to this point been good for enterprise. With upcoming titles like James L. Brooks’ Ella McCay, and the Bruce Springsteen biopic Ship Me from Nowhere, the addition of Satan within the White Metropolis actually makes for a robust slate of movies.
