The famous director Martin Scorsese and Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio will work together again on the set. This time, they will screen version of which was published in 2003 documentary book by Eric Larson, “The Devil in the White City” of the first recorded serial killer in the United States.
It is expected that DiCaprio will play the role of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, who lived in the XIX century in Chicago. It was there that in 1893 hosted the World Exhibition. The influx of visitors turned out to be very useful for him, but killed Holmes not only visitors.
At the trial Holmes confessed to 27 murders. However, there are suggestions that his victims were about 200 people.
For DiCaprio and Scorsese, this will be the sixth joint film. Earlier, the actor starred in such films as the eminent director “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Gangs of New York”, “The Aviator,” “The Departed” and “Shutter Island”.
It is reported that Leonardo DiCaprio has bought the copyright on the book by Eric Larson in 2010.
It tells the story of Dr. Holmes, who built and rebuilt a large building in Chicago so that he alone was known overall plan of the premises.
Many of the rooms have been concealed. One of them, for example, by a tube to a deadly gas, so it was actually a gas chamber.
Have been in this building and incinerator bodies, and soundproofed rooms where he left his captives and prisoners die . Sometimes the body dropped through a chute into the cellar, where he often turns the bodies into skeletons and anatomical models sold them to medical school.
During the World Expo Holmes began to rent rooms to its visitors. According to some reports, this time missing a few dozen tourists.
Later the building became known as the castle of murders.
The script will write the next movie Billy Ray, a former screenwriter of such films as “Captain Phillips” and “The Hunger Games”.
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