DiCaprio is The Devil in the White City

Leonardo DiCaprio will star in a movie based on the book “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness At The Fair That Changed America” by Erik Larson. Here’s the story from Deadline:

DiCaprio will play Dr. HH Holmes, a cunning serial killer believed to have murdered anywhere from 27 to 200 people at a time when the city of Chicago was enthralled with hosting the World’s Fair of 1893. Holmes constructed The World’s Fair Hotel, an inn more lethal than the Bates Motel, especially for young single women. The sociopath used charm and guile to lure guests into what became known as a “murder castle,” a haunt that had a gas chamber, crematorium and a dissecting table where Holmes would murder his victims and strip their skeletons to sell for medical and scientific study.

DiCaprio most recently starred in Inception. He next stars in Hoover directed by Clint Eastwood.