Chicago 'Devil' book to big screen

[Ya Sam]

After sitting on the shelf the past few years, Erik Larson's best-selling 
novel about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair is back on track for a trip to the 
big screen. In 2003, Tom Cruise and his partner, Paula Wagner, bought the 
film rights to The Devil in the White City, which interweaves stories about 
Daniel Burnham and the creation of the Columbian Exposition with the twisted 
crimes of serial killer H.H. Holmes.
Cruise and Wagner's option on the book expired in 2004, but now producers 
Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher -- whose work ranges from the acclaimed 
''World Trade Center'' to the upcoming, wacky ''Reno 911!: Miami'' -- will 
be turning Larson's book into a movie for Paramount Pictures.

No word yet on casting.

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/zwecker/246448,CST-FTR-zp07.article

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