In an interview with The Naples Daily, Eric Larson offers this status report on the adaptation of his The Devil in the White City. “It’s slated to be a Hulu series. DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are still involved, I believe, but as executive producers. I don’t think DiCaprio has any intention of playing the killer Holmes, as was originally contemplated. The saga of adapting Devil for film or TV has been a long one. I’m not holding my breath, [...]

Sneaky devils. Just days after reporting that Robert Pattison was in talks for the role of (alleged) serial killer H. H. Holmes, Giant Freakin Robot has revealed that Matt Damon is a top choice for the lead role in the Hulu adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 bestseller about the 1893 World’s Fair, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Damon, star of Good Will Hunting (1997), played serial killer Tom Ripley [...]

After nearly two years of silence since the February 2019 announcement that Erik Larson’s 2003 bestseller about the 1893 World’s Fair, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, was being developed as a Hulu miniseries, a report on one potential casting has surfaced. Giant Freakin Robot reports that Robert Pattinson currently is in talks for the role of (alleged) serial killer H. H. Holmes in the historical drama. Pattison is [...]