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DEVIL Gets His Due

I was pleased to see one of my all-time favorite books, Eric Larson’s true crime story, The Devil in the White City, suddenly moving up Amazon’s sales rankings (now at #190 from #526 yesterday).

It turns out that Leonardo DiCaprio is working on acquiring film rights, with the intent of starring as the serial killer who used the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair to lure his victims.

The obvious question is why is this just happening now, seven years after the book was published? According to Deadline, Tom Cruise originally optioned it, but that recently lapsed.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson
Retail Price: $15.00
Paperback: 447 pages
Publisher: Vintage – (2004-02-10)
ISBN / EAN: 0375725601 / 9780375725609

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at 10:35 am and is filed under Books & Movies. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “DEVIL Gets His Due”

  1. Jan Says:
    November 2nd, 2010 at 11:00 am

    This is such a fantastic read. I always say, If everyone wrote history like this, everyone would read history.

  2. Naomi Bates Says:
    November 2nd, 2010 at 4:45 pm

    Larsen is absolutely my favorite NF author!! Any one of his books would make an excellent movie.

  3. Jackie Merritt Says:
    November 3rd, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Wonderful book- hope they’ll do it justice as a film.