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Update: RIP in Peace, Scorsese/DiCaprio-produced "The Devil in the White City" limited series


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  • 2 months later...

Or not.

 

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Keanu Reeves will no longer star in the Hulu series adaptation "Devil in the White City," Variety has learned.

 

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Keanu Reeves will no longer star in the Hulu series adaptation of “The Devil in the White City,” Variety has learned exclusively from sources.

 

The show was first put into development at Hulu in 2019 and was officially ordered to series at the streamer in August 2022. It is based on the book of the same name by by Erik Larson.

 

Per the official logline, the show “tells the true story of Daniel H. Burnham, a demanding but visionary architect who races to make his mark on history with the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, America’s first modern serial killer and the man behind the notorious ‘Murder Castle’ built in the Fair’s shadow.”

 

Reeves was cast as Burnham in what would have been his first major American television role, but the search is now on for a replacement. No one has been cast as Holmes at the time of this publishing.

 

 

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The hits just keep on comin' for this one, eh?

 

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In another blow to Hulu's series adaptation of "The Devil in the White City," Todd Field has exited the project on which he was to serve as director and executive producer

 

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In another blow to Hulu’s series adaptation of “The Devil in the White City,” Todd Field has exited the project on which he was to serve as director and executive producer, Variety has learned exclusively.

 

According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, the search is now on for a new director. News of Field’s departure from the show comes just days after Variety also exclusively reported that series star Keanu Reeves had bowed out as well.

 

 

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  • 4 months later...

RIP in Peace.

 

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The limited series had been in talks with new stars (Jeremy Allen White, Jude Law) and a director (Matt Ross) but the Disney-backed streamer dropped out of doing the series that has been in the works for more than a decade. Producers ABC Signature plans to shop it.

 

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Devil in the White City is officially dead at Hulu.

 

Sources say the Disney-backed streamer is no longer moving forward with the limited series that had been in various stages of development for more than a decade. However, sources say producers ABC Signature remains committed to the drama and will be shopping the show to new outlets.

 

The news comes months after leading man Keanu Reeves and director Todd Field (Tár) dropped out of the drama from Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

 

 

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