When someone is described as "having a moment", it's not usually a person as infamous as Charles Manson. But with Quentin Tarantino gearing up to make a film that is set during the time of the Manson murders, there's another movie in the works that will reference him, and Matt Smith is aboard to play the man.
Mary Harron, no stranger to psychopaths after making, well, American Psycho is directing the drama, which follows the three young women who were sentenced to death in the wake of the murder case, but who saw their sentence shifted to life imprisonment. Suki Waterhouse, Hannah Murray, Carla Gugino, Kaylie Carter and Merritt Wever will star, with Wever aboard as a graduate student named Karlene Faith, who was sent in to prison to teach them, and how that experience changed everyone involved.
Psycho co-writer Guinevere Turner is back working with Harron, this time adapting Ed Sanders' 1971 bestseller The Family as well as Faith's own book, The Long Prison Journey Of Leslie Van Houten. "Guinevere Turner’s script brings a fresh and unique perspective to the infamous story of the Manson murders and we have now found the perfect cast to bring it to life,” Harron tells The Hollywood Reporter. Harron is looking to kick off filming this spring and the rights to the film will be available at the Berlin Film Festival market.
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