Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Zac Efron , star of the upcomingBaywatchreboot , has been cast to playTed BundyinExtremely Wicked , Shockingly Evil and Vile , a raw film about the serial killer ’s life . The story will be told from the perspective of Elizabeth Kloepfer , Ted Bundy ’s longtime girlfriend who spend year fighting the allegation against Bundy , but later helped bring him down .
Extremely Wickedwill be orchestrate by documentary film producer Joe Berlinger ( Paradise lose 3 : Purgatory ) . primary picture taking is set to start this October , aiming for a release sometime in late-2018 . The screenplay is by Michael Werwie , a Hollywood freshman whose Ted Bundy script earned him Nicholl Fellowship prize and made the 2012 Black List – an annual list that names the best - unproduced scripts in the industry . In old years,500 daylight of SummerandJunowere on the Black List and were produced after Holy Scripture of mouth spread head . Both were decisive and financial successes and kickstarted the careers of Marc Webb and Diablo Cody . THRfirst break the news of Zac Efron ’s cast as Bundy .
Ted Bundy has been the case of dozens of movie , docudrama and Word of God . The most notable is Matthew Bright ’s 2002 biopicTed Bundy , which was an exploitational take on Bundy ’s crimes . The A&E TV movieThe Rivermanfrom 2004 focus on former constabulary investigator Robert Keppel working with an put away Bundy to catch the Green River Orcinus orca . Keppel and Bundy ’s relationship would go on to inform the introduction of Thomas Harris’sSilence of the Lambs .
The casting of Zac Efron as a successive killer like Bundy is a surprising choice . Efron begin his career as a Disney kid in theHigh School Musicalseries and has since give his career to comedies . However , before his arrest and conviction , Bundy was known as an average , average and pleasant man . Those who knew him were surprise by the revelation of his law-breaking . Bundy himself was count a big man – especially for a serial killer – so in that way , the casting of Efron is n’t that much of a surprisal .
Extremely arch , Shockingly Evil and Vileis to be one of Efron ’s few dramas . Outside of the upcomingThe Greatest Showman , his last serious film was 2012’sThe Paperboy . Though the motion-picture show was not well receive by critic , it did offer an exemplar of the sort of work Efron is capable of delivering outside the raunchy comedies he ’s been know for as of belated .
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informant : THR
