Paramount has "closed a splashy deal" to acquire Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Deadline.com reported, adding that the project will feature director Martin Scorsese re-teaming with Leonardo DiCaprio, who gets the "killer role" that he "has wanted to play for a long time."
Billy Ray will write the script. Deadline.com noted that the "trick with this property has been interlacing the two main characters, the producer/architect of the World's Fair and the man who works for him and turns out to be a mass murderer. Ray cracked that, and the town flipped for it."
