Leo DiCaprio to get all serial killer-y in next film

And yet he'll always be Titanic's heartthrob artist Jack Dawson in here (*points to chest*)

After chasing down the rights to the bestselling non-fiction book, Leo is set to star as 'America's first serial killer' Dr H. H. Holmes in an adaptation of The Devil in the White City. According to the book, in the late 1800s, Holmes killed somewhere between 20 and 200 people - which is a pretty vague fucking number if you ask me. Is this book research or guesswork?

Apparently Holmes used to carve up his victims in the Murder Castle attraction of Chicago's World Fair in 1893, although maybe that's another 'educated guess'. Come on, we can all join in with this - Holmes then used to use dismembered limbs as paperweights when he was busy at home inventing the electric nose hair trimmer. This is easy.

In any case, it's another complex character role for the boy-faced actor who just wants to be taken seriously as a thespian but few can deny that DiCaprio has been proving himself again and again as a consistently excellent actor who has starred in some seriously challenging roles this past year, first with Scorsese's noirish mindfuck Shutter Island and then with trying to understand what the hell is going on will all the dreams in Inception.

Playing a serial killer is a great move by the schoolboy chubster though - get him out of that 'troubled hero' role that he's started to establish for himself and let's see him go full-on twisted. I won't be happy until I see him hacking into a limb with a blood-splattered face while cackling maniacally.