Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming with Martin Scorsese for a drama concerning the felony underworld in Hawaii.
The ‘Revenant’ actor is ready to proceed his lengthy collaboration with the 82-year-old director within the currently-untitled film, which will even star ‘Jungle Cruise’ co-stars Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Emily Blunt and is ready within the Nineteen Sixties and 70s.
In response to Deadline, Nick Bilton is writing the script for the film and can comply with a formidable mob boss who rises to construct probably the most highly effective felony empire on the islands, waging battle in opposition to his rival teams and mainland corporattitons, whereas additionally combating to protect his ancestral land.
It’s based mostly on an untold true story of a person who fought to protect his homeland by a “ruthless quest for absolute energy”.
Blunt and Johnson – who has lengthy wished to make a film in his native Hawaii – are mentioned to have taken the concept to Scorsese and DiCaprio they usually all introduced within the author collectively.
Producers embody Scorsese and the three stars, in addition to Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette and Rick Yorn.
A number of bids are mentioned to be on the desk for the film, however nothing has been agreed as but.
Information of the venture comes only a few weeks after it was revealed the ‘Romeo and Juliet’ actor is ready to workforce up for the seventh time for ‘The Satan within the White Metropolis’.
Insiders say that there’s at the moment no script for the image, which is predicated on Larson’s non-fiction guide ‘Satan within the White Metropolis: Homicide, Magic and Insanity on the Honest That Modified America’ , which was first revealed in 2004.
The pair have been engaged on the venture for some time and have at all times felt that the story has resonated by the years and continues to take action.
The ‘Wolf of Wall Avenue’ actor landed the rights to the guide again in 2010 and, regardless of having gone by quite a few levels of growth together with a TV sequence that by no means materialised, sources say that each one events agreed to deliver the story to the large display after a gathering with twentieth Century executives.
The story centres on Dr. HH Holmes, a serial killer who’s believed to have murdered between 27 and 200 folks throughout a interval when town of Chicago was preoccupied with internet hosting the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893.
The guide performs on the contrasts between the hopeful expectations introduced on the exposition and the darkish crimes of Holmes – who moved within the shadows and constructed a hid home of horrors.
DiCaprio and Scorsese most just lately labored collectively on the 2023 flick ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and the legendary director hailed the star as a “pure movie actor”.
He mentioned: “What’s nice about Leo, and it is why we work collectively so usually, is, he goes there. He goes to those bizarre locations which might be so troublesome and convoluted, and thru the convolution, by some means there is a readability that we are able to attain.
“And normally it is within the expression, in his face, in his eyes. I’ve at all times informed him this. He is a pure movie actor. I may shoot a close-up of him, he might be considering of nothing, and I may intercut something with it, and other people will say, ‘Oh, he is reacting to such and such.’
“There’s one thing in his face that the digicam locks into, in his eyes.”
