While Ryan Murphy’s Ratched and The Boys In The Band are making some good noise on Netflix, the two are ready for yet another collaboration, this time joined by Ian Brennan too. The new project is a limited series, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” co-creator by Murphy and Brennan.
“Monster” is about Dahmer from Wisconsin, one of the most notorious serial killers of America. The story will be told through the perspective of Dahmer’s victims and will give an insight into the impassive and incapable police.
The series will offer atleast 10 dramatised instances where Dahmer was let go after being almost apprehended. It will also focus on how White supremacy played a major role in the easy letting go of Dahmer, a decent looking white man, both by police officers and the judges when he was caught for petty crimes.
As amazing are the makers and the story, the cast is expected to be no less. While the whole cast is yet to be finalised, Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Richard Jenkins (Shape Of Water), will play the role of Dahmer’s father Lionel, a chemist, who taught him how to safely bleach and preserve animal bones when he was a child, a technique he later used on his victims. Forother members of the cast, the hunt is on.
Carl Franklin (Mindhunter, The Leftovers) will direct the pilot episode while Janet Mock (Pose, Hollywood) will be writing and directing a number of them. Both Franklin and Mock will serve as executive producer alongside Murphy and Brennan.
Alexis Martin Woodall and Eric Kovtun form Ryan Murphy‘s Productions will produce the ten-part series with Scott Robertson. David McMillan and Rashad Robinson of Color of Change will act as supervising producers.
“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” is part of Murphy’s overall deal with Netflix under which they have together brought Hollywood, The Politician, The Boys In The Band and Ratched. Jeffrey Dahmer story has been previously shown on screen quite a few times but for the first time this series will depict the psychology and how the killing spree was allowed to go on for decades before he was finally caught in the early 90s.