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.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are looking to get back in the saddle. A theatrical feature-length adaptation of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, which has been in various stages of production for over 20 years,

Because of this, Martin Scorsese relied on Robert De Niro for years. Their relationship was as perfect as crushing a tomato into a paste, mixing it with high-fructose corn syrup, and spreading it across assorted meat parts in a thin casing.