“Devil In The White City”
The rights to the book are owned by Cruiz or DiCaprio. It is a facinating, detailed, frightening, “true crime story” in which H.H. Holmes is eventuality found out, tracked down, caught, tried, convicted and executed.
A film could not do the story justice, there is way too much there to gloss over. However, it would instead make an outstanding HBO, Netflix or Amazon Prime mini series. Especially if DiCaprio played H.H. HOLMES.
If they simply and accurately told the story without embellishing it or “Hollywoodizing” it, they would have a sure-fire hit on their hands. It literally has everything that you could ask for and the facts behind the story are far more interesting than anything Hollywood could dream ip.