Hulu is developing a series based on Erik Larson's bestselling book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, according to Variety. Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese will executive produce the project along with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, Emma Koskoff and Jennifer Davisson. Paramount Television is producing.
Describing the project as "the latest chapter in the long development history of the book," Variety wrote that DiCaprio "acquired the rights nearly a decade ago with plans to adapt it as a film in which he would star as Holmes. Scorsese came onboard to direct in 2015 with Billy Ray set to write the script. It was first put in development in Hollywood by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner through their Cruise/Wagner banner via the shingle's deal with Paramount, but the option lapsed in 2004. Paramount reacquired the film rights in 2007 and set it up with producers Michael Shamberg and Sher."