The title for this blog is not a quote from anybody, but something I basically said to myself last night when I heard news of Leonardo Di Caprio's next role. He is playing a serial killer named H.H.Holmes in a book adaptation of Devil In The White City. Not many people will know who this serial killer did, or his ingenious way of luring his victims but I did. I spent five months researching about Henry Holmes, and the best part of my first year at University, and the summer following, writing a 164 page script about him. I was proud of my work. Now, I feel like that whole script has gone to pot.
H.H.Holmes was a serial killer who, in the late 19th century, built a fantastic hotel just in time for the Chicago's World Fair. Little did other people know was that this hotel was filled with rooms with no exits, gas pipes, torture chambers and the such. Hundreds went missing but no-one knew why. Then began the chase of Holmes and his story lives on, with himself being one of America's first ever serial killers.
Not only am I upset that my script is now being done by Hollywood, but they're choosing the wrong man to do it. Di Caprio? He may have great credits as of late but there is only one person who can fill this role and that's Robert Knepper. His evil glare, his wry smile and he even looks like Holmes. If I was directing this film, and by God I wish I was, then that's who I would of cast in a heartbeat. Even if I was offered Di Caprio first.
I thought I was pretty lucky finding a serial killer with such an incredible back story that noone had seemed to have a go at in the film industry but my luck has run out. I didn't think that I could have made the film in all honesty but it was my personal project that maybe in the future I could've given a go at. Oh well, time to contact some more film companies and wonder what could have been.
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