Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese will work together again

The marriage between Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese is going to have a new chapter. Actor and director have been working together for years on numerous projects. It all started with Gangs of New York in 2002. In that movie, the filmmaker He found his new fetish actor. Two years later, in 2004, they repeated together in The aviator. More than two decades later, they still maintain the idyll and will repeat it in a new project in which both are very involved.

According to reports deadline, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese will adapt the best-seller of Eric Larson, The devil in the white city (The Devil in the White City). 20th Century Studios will produce the film and is already negotiating with the performer to be the protagonist. In addition, both will act as producers along with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn and the partner of DiCaprio on Appian Way, Jennifer Davisson.

The source assures that DiCaprio and Scorsese have been developing the project for some time. Both consider that it is a story that, since its publication in 20024, still resonates. DiCaprio He obtained the rights to the book in 2010 and since then he has tried to adapt it to audiovisual production in different ways. A series for Hulu was even considered, although it never came to fruition.

Now, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese They have met with 20th Century executives and the results are very promising. The company sees it viable to make a film with both involved in front of and behind the cameras. In this way, the two will repeat together after The Moon Killers in 2023. Before, the aforementioned Gangs of New York, The aviatorwhich followed Infiltrators, Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street. In total, six titles that are already cinema history.

The new film by DiCaprio and Scorsese

The story they will address Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio follow the Dr. H. H. Holmesa cunning serial killer believed to have murdered between 27 and 200 people in Chicago. At that time, the city was preparing to host the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The book presents the contrasts between the fascination with the wonders of the exhibition and the macabre and shady actions of Holmes.

For now, The Devil in the White City I still wouldn’t have a script. Therefore, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese They will have to wait a while to start filming. There’s no indication of when this might happen, so it’s impossible to estimate a tentative release date for the film, although it will take a few years to see it in theaters.