In various stages of development for twenty years, the screen adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 best-selling book about the Columbian Exposition, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, has blown another fuse. In the wake of leading man Keanu Reeves and director Todd Field dropping out of the drama last October, Hulu has pulled the plug on the production on March 6.
Hulu ordered the miniseries in February 2019, but little more than flickering cast rumor have emerged since.
New outlets report that the streamer, working with Paramount Television Studios and Disney’s ABC Signature, recently have been in talks with actors Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) and Jude Law as well as director Matt Ross for the 1893 World’s Fair drama being produced by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly note that ABC Signature remains committed to bringing The Devil in the White City to the screen and will be shopping it around to new outlets.
Perhaps another studio will fire up the dynamos and illuminate the White City.
