Ever since it was announced that Keanu Reeves (The Matrix, John Wick) was cast to star in his first official television series ever, as Daniel Burnham in the limited series The Devil in the White City for Hulu, we have been waiting patiently for updates.
According to a recent listing in Production Weekly, the series is reportedly scheduled to begin filming in March 2023 and will be filmed in Chicago and Toronto. Exact filming dates and locations have yet to be disclosed at this time.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese will executive produce along with Stacee Sher, Rick Yorn, Emma Koskoff, and Jennifer Davisson. Director Todd Field has signed on to helm the first two episodes.
Hulu confirmed a limited series order in January 2022 for the drama which is based on the 2003 novel by Erik Larson. The story is set in Chicago in 1893, interweaving the true tales of Daniel Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World’s Fair, and H. H. Holmes, a serial killer who lured his victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed “Murder Castle”.
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The novel, The Devil in the White City is divided into four parts, the first three happening in Chicago between 1890 and 1893, while part four of the book takes place in Philadelphia circa 1895. The plot line revolves around Daniel Burnham, his building of the fair, and the struggles he overcomes. The other, a vivid and very different plot line, is that of H. H. Holmes, a mentally unstable pharmacist/doctor who forms a plan to use an abandoned lot across the street from his pharmacy to lure and kill multiple victims.
Hulu hasn’t announced an exact release date just yet, however the eight episode limited series is set to launch in 2024.
