Keanu Reeves will not star in the series produced by DiCaprio and Scorsese – Diffusion (Lionsgate)
In 2010, actor Leonardo DiCaprio acquired the rights to Erik Larson’s book. The devil in the white citywhich tells the true story of the architect Daniel H. Burnham, creator of the 1893 Chicago Universal Exposition, together with the adventures of the considered the first serial killer in the United States, Dr. HH Holmes.
DiCaprio has since had the goal of making a film based on the book, and is now switching to the series format with the collaboration of Martin Scorsese. Production would be the protagonist Keanu Reeves in the role of Burnham, but now the news has come out, which the famous actor remembered for the Matrix saga, will not participate in this production.
What are the reasons why Reeves left this production?
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, responsible for this future production scheduled to be released in 2024 and which has been in development since 2019, are already looking for a replacement to play the protagonist Daniel H. Burnham, and for the moment neither of them have signed any. actor for Dr. HH Holmes, as reported by the specialized site Variety.
Everything indicates that this is due to the the actor’s busy schedule. Reeves has ahead of him the premiere of John Wick: Chapter 4, not to mention the planned John Wick 5, as well as the sequel to Constantine, added to his efforts to bring BRZRKR to theaters, based on a comic of his that will already have. a treat in a Netflix anime adaptation.
On the other hand, Scorsese and DiCaprio also have different productions on their busy schedule, with another collaboration in Killers of the Flower Moon, followed by another project in which they want to make a book by David Grann, The Wager. Similarly, Scorsese has a solo project, a biopic about Jerry Garcia from the Grateful Dead, starring actor Jonah Hill.
After several failed attempts to bring this book to the screen, after DiCaprio took over the rights, in 2019 the streaming portal Hulu has decided to join the project, which will now be a miniseries with Sam Shaw as screenwriter and Todd Field as director, executive producing Rick York, Jennifer Davisson, Stacey Sher and Mark Lafferty, as well as DiCaprio and Scorsese.
The story of The Devil in the White City focuses on the true events behind architect Daniel H. Burnham’s quest to make his mark at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, as Dr. HH Holmes secretly committed his grisly murders in the notorious castle of death, a construction designed so that there were no traces of the victims. The story goes a long way, now we just have to wait to see which actors will take the helm of the series.
Source: Nacion Flix
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