The Devil in the White City Series Still in the Works Following Hulu’s Exit By series isn’t dead yet. In February 2019, it was announced that and were executive producing a series for based on Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America novel. In March 2023, however, it was reported that the Disney-owned streamer had decided to exit the project.
The news came after Keanu Reeves and director Todd Field left the series in 2022. Jeremy Allen White, Jude Law, and director Matt Ross were also in talks to board the project before Hulu dropped out. Speaking with , producer Stacey Sher revealed that she’s “still involved” with the project.
When asked if that means fans can expect to see The Devil in the White City series sometime soon, Sher said, “I mean, I hope so. It’s not imminent, but it is not ever far from my mind.” She also confirmed that DiCaprio and Scorsese, along with Rick Yorn and Jen Davisson, are still involved with the series.
What is The Devil in the White City about? “Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century,” a description of the novel reads. “The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Was.