Hulu Series Will End Due To Keanu Reeves’ Exit

Keanu Reeves will not star within the Hulu collection adaptation of The Satan within the White Metropolis selection realized completely from the supply. The present was first put into growth at Hulu n 2019 and was formally ordered right into a collection on the streamer in August 2022. It’s based mostly on the e-book of the identical identify by Erik Larson.

Per the official Hulu logline, the present tells the true story of Daniel H. Burnham, a demanding however visionary architect who races to take his marks on historical past with the 1893 Chicago World’s Truthful, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, America’s first fashionable serial killer and the person behind the infamous Homicide Citadel constructed within the truthful’s shadow. Reeves was solid as Burnham in what would have been his first main American tv function, however the search is now on for a substitute. Nobody has been solid as Holmes on the time of this publishing.

Reps For Hulu Declined To Remark

Reps for Reeves didn’t instantly reply to Selection’s request for remark. Martin Scorsese, Rick Yorn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson of Appian Approach, Stacey Sher, Sam Shaw, and Mark Lafferty function government producers on the collection. Sam Shaw is adapting the e-book for the display and can function showrunner and government producer, with Lila Byock additionally government producing.ABC Signature will produce in affiliation with Hulu Paramount Tv Studios.

That is the most recent chapter within the lengthy growth historical past of the e-book. DiCaprio acquired the rights in 2010 with plans to adapt it as a movie by which he would star as Holmes. Scorsese got here on board to direct in 2015 with Billy Ray set to write down the script. It was first put in growth in Hollywood by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner by their Cruise/Wagner banner through the shingle’s take care of Paramount.