--- description: The story is about a serial killer in Chicago in the late 1800s who may have killed 200 people title: Leonardo DiCaprio To Star in Martin Scorsese's 'Devil in the White City' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt998a1f820058e244/69885eaee20a877ce6a8cb06/leonardo-dicaprio.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Leonardo DiCaprio Will Star in Martin Scorsese's _Devil in the White City_  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 11, 2015 12:52 PM CUT  Leonardo DiCaprio attends the Solutions Project garden party at La Plaza Cultural on June 18, 2015, in New York City. Leonardo DiCaprio attends the Solutions Project garden party at La Plaza Cultural on June 18, 2015, in New York City.Charles Sykes—Invision/AP  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 11, 2015 12:52 PM CUT Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are reprising their collaboration from _The Wolf of Wall Street_ on a new film: _Devil in the White City._ Paramount just won a bidding war for the film, [Deadline reports](http://deadline.com/2015/08/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-devil-in-the-white-city-billy-ray-paramount-1201496941/ "undefined"), which is based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Erik Larson. The movie will be directed by Scorsese. The story centers on Dr. HH Holmes, who will be played by DiCaprio, a serial killer from the late 1800s in Chicago who murdered anywhere from 27 to 200 people and sold their skeletons to science. The movie will have high standards to live up to, based on Scorsese and DiCaprio’s past work together: _Gangs Of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island_ and _The Wolf Of Wall Street._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3992283/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-devil-in-the-white-city/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3992283/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-devil-in-the-white-city/"},"headline":"Leonardo DiCaprio Will Star in Martin Scorsese's Devil in the White City","datePublished":"2015-08-11T12:52:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:04:19.916Z","description":"The story is about a serial killer in Chicago in the late 1800s who may have killed 200 people","url":"https://time.com/3992283/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-devil-in-the-white-city/","keywords":["movies","Leonardo DiCaprio","martin scorsese"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt998a1f820058e244/69885eaee20a877ce6a8cb06/leonardo-dicaprio.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt998a1f820058e244/69885eaee20a877ce6a8cb06/leonardo-dicaprio.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Leonardo DiCaprio","caption":"Leonardo DiCaprio","creditText":"Charles Sykes—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3992283/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-devil-in-the-white-city/","name":"Leonardo DiCaprio Will Star in Martin Scorsese's Devil in the White City"}}]}] ```