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Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese's Devil in the White City still in development
Producer Stacey Sher gave Deadline the latest update on the arduous road to adapting Erik Larson's best-selling nonfiction classic, The Devil in the White City.
The project had been in various stages of development since Deadline revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio had purchased the film rights to the book in 2010. He then developed it as a feature film at Paramount with Scorsese directing and himself set to star. In 2019, Hulu announced that it was developing the project as a big-budget series with DiCaprio and Scorsese serving as executive producers. Last year, Hulu decided not to move forward with the project. ABC Signature, which had been working on the project in partnership with Paramount Television Studios, said at the time that it remained committed to the project and hoped to find it a new home. That was in March 2023.
When asked about the long-awaited Devil Sher, which has been around since the beginning, he told Deadline that it's still happening.
