By Over a year after Hulu officially ditched the long-gestating series adaptation of Erik Larson’s “The Devil in the White City,” the project is apparently still alive according to producer Stacey Sher.
Speaking with Deadline, Sher says she’s still involved with the project. Asked if we could see it sometime soon, she says: “I mean, I hope so. It’s not imminent, but it is not ever far from my mind.”
Sher then went on to confirm executive producers Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Rick Yorn and Jen Davisson are also all still involved with the project.
The project, which had been in development across various studios over the years (including a potential David Fincher film), was first put into development at Hulu in 2019 and officially ordered to series in 2022.
Set against the backdrop of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, the book tells the intertwining stories of fair architect Daniel H. Burnham and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, a charming sociopath who used a hotel he built near the fairgrounds to lure victims.
Complete with gas chamber and crematorium, Holmes would murder his victims and strip their skeletons to sell for medical and scientific study. Holmes killed at least twenty-seven people, mostly young women, though some say the number was closer to nearly two hundred.
Actors like Keanu Reeves, Jude Law and Jeremy Allen White along with filmmaker Todd Field were all linked to the Hulu adaptation at one point.
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