By Andrew Sanford | News | January 23, 2025 |
Chocolate and peanut butter go great together, So much so that they dominate the candy industry in the eyes of anyone with taste buds. Hot dogs are perfectly topped with mustard, though I’m only saying that because I know I’ll get yelled at if I say ketchup is a superior hot dog topping. What else? Nerds go great on strips of licorice, thank you to whatever engineer at Ferrara Candy Company made that discovery. Solid, reliable combinations make life exciting, not only in the food world but in cinema as well!
Plenty of directors have actors they prefer to work with. Some people can easily communicate their vision, so directors will call them back again and again. Because of this, Martin Scorsese relied on Robert De Niro for years. Their relationship was as perfect as crushing a tomato into a paste, mixing it with high-fructose corn syrup, and spreading it across assorted meat parts in a thin casing. Scorsese will still work with De Niro, but he has found a new golden boy in the last two decades: Leonardo DiCaprio.
DiCaprio should have won his first Oscar under Scorsese’s direction for 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s one in a list of incredible performances DiCaprio has delivered for the Goodfellas director, but the most impressive. Regardless, the pair have formed a wonderful relationship, to the point that the simple announcement that they will work together generates a significant amount of buzz. This brings me to the point of this piece (which is not that ketchup belongs on a hot dog and anyone to say otherwise is subject to madness). Scorsese and DiCaprio are getting back together!
Deadline is reporting that the Oscar-winning duo will reunite to adapt The Devil In The White City, a book about Dr. HH Holmes, a serial killer who terrorized Chicago in the late 1800s. Presumably, DiCaprio would play Holmes, but with no script for the project, that has yet to be confirmed. DiCaprio has no problem playing despicable characters, especially for Scorsese, so it seems likely. I wouldn’t be surprised if they went a different route, though, as the book isn’t solely focused on the murderous madman.
I’ll be promptly seated whenever this film comes out. That Scorsese is still making big movies into his 80s is a gift. We just lost one of the more inventive filmmakers before he reached that decade of his life. If Scorsese is still kicking and wants to reteam with one of his favorite actors we must acknowledge that it will be worth the watch — just like we must acknowledge that ketchup, not mustard, is the superior condiment for a hot dog. This article is over and I will be taking no questions or comments.