No stranger to scary characters, Evan Peters will portray one of the most infamous serial killers in America for a new Netflix series.
The actor “American Horror Story” and “X-Men: Apocalypse” will play the lead role in “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”, which will be co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. According to Deadline, the cast of the series also includes Richard Jenkins, Penelope Ann Miller and Niecy Nash.
Although the details are rare, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” will be a psychological thriller rather than a horror and is said to make a timer of many years of its subject from the perspective of one of its victims.
Getty Images Actor Evan Peters (left) will play serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Netflix’s “Monster: Jeffrey Dahmer’s Story.”
The series will also visualize Dahmer’s case through the current goal of white privilege, dramatizing at least 10 cases in which the Wisconsin native – described in press releases as “a clean, handsome white guy” – was given a free pass by police. and judges. Although no release date has been announced, the pilot episode will be directed by Carl Franklin.
Dahmer, known alternately as the “Milwaukee Cannibal” and the “Milwaukee Monster,” killed and dismembered 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991. He also committed necrophilia and cannibalism on several of his victims, many of whom were human beings. of color and some minor. Convicted of 16 murders, he died in 1994 at the age of 34 after being beaten by another inmate, Christopher Scarver.
“The Monster” is not the first Hollywood project inspired by Dahmer’s crimes. The 2002 biopic “Dahmer” starred Jeremy Renner, while Disney Channel star Ross Lynch played the teenage serial killer in the 2017 “My Friend Dahmer,” based on John’s graphic novel. “Derf” Backderf of the same name.
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