I was obsessed with Devil in the White City for a decade. My high school was 50 yard away from where the Chicago World's Fair was held, and I played soccer on a field near where Holmes murdered about 200 people. It was a truly horrible crime, but it's a very Chicago story. Though I moved to LA, I think of myself as fundamentally Mid-Western, and in a weird way, this is a dark and twisted tribute to my hometown.He also comments on the similarities between Turing and Holmes:
Turing was a great genius and in a twisted evil way, so was Holmes,” Moore told me. “Turing was this British mathematician who on the outside wasn't likeable at all, who was difficult and a bit rude, but who was a great human being inside. Holmes was a most likable guy who inwardly was a tremendous monster. I'm drawn to stories where the role of villain and hero get murky and I thought it would be different to tell the Holmes story from his perspective, and put a little humanity into him. That's not easy because it's like trying to care for a caricature and you read the book and every time he does something horrible, you read 10 pages further and he's done something even worse. In my head, the most unsettling part of Holmes isn't what he did, but in what ways we notice bits of him that exist inside us and don't make us feel very good. I credit Warner Bros with taking a risk on me with both of these projects. It has been a surreal six months for me.Production on the film in which Chicago will be prominently featured is expected to start early next year, but there's not yet set a start date. The Devil in the White City comes to theaters sometime in 2013.
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