After the rights expired at Warner, Erik Larson’s novel has been picked up by Paramount and will be the next project that features Leonardo Dicaprio in front of the camera and Martin Scorsese directing.
Erik Larson
based on Erik Larson’s novel of the same name, the story follows HH Holmes as he sets up a hotel in which he murders and dissects dozens of people during the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 to become one of the most prolific serial killers in history.
Logline: The story of William Dodd who was appointed as United States ambassador to Germany in 1933, right at the beginning of Hitler’s rise to power, and took his family along.
Logline: True story centers on H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) a serial killer, who rose to fame (shortly after Jack the Ripper) in 1893 chicago, when he built a new hotel to capitalize on the upcoming World’s fair, and he manipulated the glitz and glamour of the looming event to seduce, and capture his prey by luring them to his hotel, where he would go on to murder somewhere between 27 and 200 people before his end.
