Larson’s best-selling book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is set in Chicago at the end of the 19th century and focuses on World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and serial killer H.H. Holmes.

Deadline is reporting that the long-gestating film has found a new home, as 20th Century is now set to make it, and Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are both in active talks. The movie will tell the horrifying true story of Dr.

After 15 years of aborted attempts to make a movie about America's first prolific serial killer, it appears Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are finally moving forward with an adaptation of Erik Larson's book The Devil in the White City.