Netflix’s Mindhunter explored the inner working of real-life serial killers and their minds. But as the series progressed into its second season, Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) get involved in a series of kidnappings and murders of young black boys in Atlanta. While Mindhunter Season 2 ended with the supposed perpetrator of the crimes, there was a loose end of another serial killer connected to the Atlanta murders.
Holden learns there is more to the Atlanta murders in ‘Mindhunter’ Season 2
While in Atlanta, Holden is coerced into listening to a series of kidnappings of young black boys in the neighborhood. While many are missing persons, many of them have ended up murdered. He learns from one of the detectives who used to be in charge that they could not find a link between the victims.
The Behavioral Science Unit soon takes up the case as Holden...
Holden learns there is more to the Atlanta murders in ‘Mindhunter’ Season 2
While in Atlanta, Holden is coerced into listening to a series of kidnappings of young black boys in the neighborhood. While many are missing persons, many of them have ended up murdered. He learns from one of the detectives who used to be in charge that they could not find a link between the victims.
The Behavioral Science Unit soon takes up the case as Holden...
- 4/6/2023
- by Gabriela Silva
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Ten years ago, most people hadn’t even heard of a podcast. Now, they’re an integral part of the media landscape, and none more so than those about true crime. To rank the best, we polled true-crime aficionados about their favorite shows, then sifted through the top choices. Whether they cover a new case each episode or present a story over the course of a season, these picks each shaped the genre in their own way. Some are the results of deep investigative journalism; others are by amateur sleuths...
- 7/3/2022
- by EJ Dickson, Brenna Ehrlich, Elisabeth Garber-Paul and Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
Over a two-year period beginning in 1979, at least 30 black children and young adults were murdered in the city of Atlanta. Eager to solve the case, officials pegged the crimes to 23-year-old Wayne Williams, who would eventually be found guilty of murdering two adults. Days after he was sentenced to two life terms, most of the children’s cases were closed and attributed to him, without ever going to trial. The new HBO series “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered” explores how the victims’ family members remain skeptical of Williams’ guilt. It points to alternate suspects and biases, while investigating the racial tensions and cultural clashes that brought Atlanta to a boiling point, raising new questions that demand further investigation.
Directed by Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, and Joshua Bennett, the five-part “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered” distinctly reproduces its period. It documents in detail Atlanta’s history over the past half-century,...
Directed by Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, and Joshua Bennett, the five-part “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered” distinctly reproduces its period. It documents in detail Atlanta’s history over the past half-century,...
- 4/13/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Cue Agent Holden Ford’s next death glare: A potential third season of Mindhunter has been put on indefinite hold and cast members Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany and Anna Torv have been released from their contracts. Exec producer David Fincher’s busy schedule precipitated the move. The show has not, however, been cancelled.
“David is focused on directing his first Netflix film Mank and on producing the second season of Love, Death and Robots,” a Netflix rep said in a statement to TVLine. “He may revisit Mindhunter again in the future, but in the meantime felt it wasn’t fair...
“David is focused on directing his first Netflix film Mank and on producing the second season of Love, Death and Robots,” a Netflix rep said in a statement to TVLine. “He may revisit Mindhunter again in the future, but in the meantime felt it wasn’t fair...
- 1/16/2020
- TVLine.com
“Richard Jewell” screenwriter Billy Ray is getting pushback from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor of reporter Kathy Scruggs, saying that Ray damaged the reputation of a woman “who can’t do anything at all now to recover” it.
Bert Roughton, who was Scruggs’ editor in verifying her reporting on the Jewell case during the 1996 Olympics, took issue with Clint Eastwood’s film for specifically criticizing and naming her, rather than himself, other managing editors or the news outlet as a whole.
Scruggs died in 2001 of a drug overdose after years of depression that resulted from the paper being sued by Jewell for defamation. The paper ultimately defended and won the lawsuit. Neither she nor Jewell are around to comment on – or defend – their depiction in the film.
Also Read: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff 'Appalled' by 'Richard Jewell' Portrayal of Reporter, Journalism
“If Billy Ray had wanted to write a screenplay that took...
Bert Roughton, who was Scruggs’ editor in verifying her reporting on the Jewell case during the 1996 Olympics, took issue with Clint Eastwood’s film for specifically criticizing and naming her, rather than himself, other managing editors or the news outlet as a whole.
Scruggs died in 2001 of a drug overdose after years of depression that resulted from the paper being sued by Jewell for defamation. The paper ultimately defended and won the lawsuit. Neither she nor Jewell are around to comment on – or defend – their depiction in the film.
Also Read: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff 'Appalled' by 'Richard Jewell' Portrayal of Reporter, Journalism
“If Billy Ray had wanted to write a screenplay that took...
- 12/14/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The battle of truth versus fiction in Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” intensified Thursday as screenwriter Billy Ray shot back at Kevin Riley, the editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Riley, who has criticized the movie for suggesting that reporter Kathy Scruggs traded sex for news tips while reporting on the investigation into the 1996 Atlanta bombing, has lawyered up in preparation for a defamation lawsuit. Ray is calling that threatened suit a “distraction campaign” to divert attention from what he claims is the paper’s sloppy reporting on the case that led to the shattered reputation of Jewell, a security guard who was treated as the prime suspect in the case.
Scruggs was one of the reporters who named Jewell as a suspect in the bombing. Jewell was innocent, but the newspaper’s report helped put Jewell’s life under scrutiny for an extended period of time, prompting him to file...
Scruggs was one of the reporters who named Jewell as a suspect in the bombing. Jewell was innocent, but the newspaper’s report helped put Jewell’s life under scrutiny for an extended period of time, prompting him to file...
- 12/13/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Exclusive: In his first comments addressing the controversy surrounding Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, which has culminated in a threatened defamation lawsuit by the Atlanta Journal- Constitution, the film’s screenwriter Billy Ray assailed the newspaper for failing to own up to its role in destroying the life of the security guard who spotted a suspicious backpack under a bench at an outdoor concert in Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics and helped move bystanders away before an explosion left two dead and more than 100 injured.
The newspaper, in turn, has criticized the film’s depiction of Kathy Scruggs — who broke the story with Ron Martz that the FBI was eyeing Jewell as its prime suspect — as a promiscuous crime reporter who essentially traded a sexual encounter with an FBI agent for the tip. The film asserts that tip, and pressure from Scruggs, led the newspaper to tear up its...
The newspaper, in turn, has criticized the film’s depiction of Kathy Scruggs — who broke the story with Ron Martz that the FBI was eyeing Jewell as its prime suspect — as a promiscuous crime reporter who essentially traded a sexual encounter with an FBI agent for the tip. The film asserts that tip, and pressure from Scruggs, led the newspaper to tear up its...
- 12/12/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Jewell's life would forever change after he discovered a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. In the blink of an eye, the FBI and media drastically shifted the narrative around him being a public hero to being the case's primary suspect. Two decades later, Clint Eastwood brings Jewell's shocking true story to the big screen in a new project starring Paul Walter Hauser. Based on Marie Brenner's 1997 Vanity Fair profile on Jewell, the film already has the faint hum of Oscar buzz, boasting a star-powered cast with Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, and Jon Hamm. But putting aside this Hollywood glamour, what really happened to Jewell?
The 1996 Olympics Bombing
By age 34, Jewell had resigned from his job working as a police officer at Piedmont College and went to Atlanta. He moved in with his mother Bobi (played by Kathy Bates in the movie), who was recovering from a foot operation,...
The 1996 Olympics Bombing
By age 34, Jewell had resigned from his job working as a police officer at Piedmont College and went to Atlanta. He moved in with his mother Bobi (played by Kathy Bates in the movie), who was recovering from a foot operation,...
- 10/24/2019
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Bong Joon Ho is poised to dominate the arthouse box office this weekend with the hotly awaited opening of his 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or winner and Academy Awards hopeful “Parasite” in stateside theaters. The film has been lavished with wall-to-wall rave reviews up and down the festival circuit, and finally, it’s time for moviegoers to discover the latest masterwork from the South Korean director of “The Host,” “Okja,” and “Snowpiercer.”
In a recent interview with Collider, Bong spoke about many of his influences and fascinations as a filmmaker, whose satirical dark comedy “Parasite” represents South Korea in the Best International Feature Oscar race for the very first time — and is the favorite to win.
When asked for what TV series Bong would like to direct an episode, the director said “Mindhunter,” the Joe Penhall-created Netflix show about FBI criminal profilers in the early years of serial-killer studies.
“I...
In a recent interview with Collider, Bong spoke about many of his influences and fascinations as a filmmaker, whose satirical dark comedy “Parasite” represents South Korea in the Best International Feature Oscar race for the very first time — and is the favorite to win.
When asked for what TV series Bong would like to direct an episode, the director said “Mindhunter,” the Joe Penhall-created Netflix show about FBI criminal profilers in the early years of serial-killer studies.
“I...
- 10/10/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
A decades-old investigation into the gruesome murders of black children in Atlanta has been officially reopened, coincidentally converging with renewed interest in the case thanks to the second season of the Netflix series Mindhunter.
Earlier this year, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Atlanta police chief Erika Shields announced that, following advancements in DNA technology, the city would be retesting evidence associated with the Atlanta child murders, a series of gruesome killings of more than 25 black children and adolescents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the press conference,...
Earlier this year, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Atlanta police chief Erika Shields announced that, following advancements in DNA technology, the city would be retesting evidence associated with the Atlanta child murders, a series of gruesome killings of more than 25 black children and adolescents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the press conference,...
- 8/20/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
The most gripping episodes of Mindhunter's second season revolve around Wayne Williams (Christopher Livingston), a young black man who authorities believed was linked to the tragic Atlanta child murders from 1979 to 1981. Today, uncertainties remain over whether or not Williams was responsible for the abduction and deaths of 29 black children and young adults. He was only convicted for the killings of two adults, which left 27 deaths officially unprosecuted according to season two's end screen card. As such, many believed that Williams may have been a scapegoat, because Atlanta soon closed the child murder cases after finding him.
Mindhunter casts Williams as a suspicious character, but it also introduces doubt as to whether he committed all of the crimes. The series examines the troubling politics of the city's rush to make the cases go away, as well as the FBI's search for a young black man. Beyond the narrative of these latest episodes,...
Mindhunter casts Williams as a suspicious character, but it also introduces doubt as to whether he committed all of the crimes. The series examines the troubling politics of the city's rush to make the cases go away, as well as the FBI's search for a young black man. Beyond the narrative of these latest episodes,...
- 8/18/2019
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
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Investigation Discovery documentary The Atlanta Child Murders revisits investigation into the murders of 22 children.
"It's 10 p.m., do you know where your children are," Georgia TV broadcast stations asked at the end of the 1970s. The 1979–1981 Atlanta Child Murders claimed the lives of at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults. Twenty-three-year old Atlanta native Wayne Williams was arrested and convicted for two of the adult murders during the two-year spree. He was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Officials will re-evaluate evidence in the Atlanta Child Murders case, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Thursday, March 21. The Atlanta Police Department will re-test 22 murder cases which which have been deemed cold cases since 1981. The cases are the subject of the upcoming documentary The Atlanta Child Murders, which premieres Saturday, March 23 on Investigation Discovery.
“It would certainly be in order for us to look once again at evidence that the...
Investigation Discovery documentary The Atlanta Child Murders revisits investigation into the murders of 22 children.
"It's 10 p.m., do you know where your children are," Georgia TV broadcast stations asked at the end of the 1970s. The 1979–1981 Atlanta Child Murders claimed the lives of at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults. Twenty-three-year old Atlanta native Wayne Williams was arrested and convicted for two of the adult murders during the two-year spree. He was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Officials will re-evaluate evidence in the Atlanta Child Murders case, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Thursday, March 21. The Atlanta Police Department will re-test 22 murder cases which which have been deemed cold cases since 1981. The cases are the subject of the upcoming documentary The Atlanta Child Murders, which premieres Saturday, March 23 on Investigation Discovery.
“It would certainly be in order for us to look once again at evidence that the...
- 3/22/2019
- Den of Geek
DC and Marvel Comics are inexorably locked in an eternal competition, their competing stables of superheroes forever vying to be the most popular. But despite that, the two companies have generally displayed a healthy respect for each other over the years, as proven by DC Comics’ touching and classy tribute to Stan Lee, creator of the vast majority of Marvel’s most iconic characters.
In a full-page ad in their current monthlies, they pay respect from “the distinguished competition,” which is how Lee referred to DC Comics in his “Bullpen Bulletins,” in which he needled rival comic book publishers without ever specifically referring to them by name. But while Lee was and always will be associated with Marvel, he’s also done a bit of work for the competition as well.
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In a full-page ad in their current monthlies, they pay respect from “the distinguished competition,” which is how Lee referred to DC Comics in his “Bullpen Bulletins,” in which he needled rival comic book publishers without ever specifically referring to them by name. But while Lee was and always will be associated with Marvel, he’s also done a bit of work for the competition as well.
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- 1/2/2019
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
It’s been over a year since Netflix premiered Mindhunter to critical acclaim. Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt revealed that Season 2 of Mindhunter filming has wrapped, which is a strong indicator of the expected release date. Messerschmidt shot eight of the 10 episodes in the first season and has returned for the second, which will focus on the Atlanta Murders. The second season will follow a chronological timeline as the murders attributed to Wayne Williams began in 1979 — two years from the beginning of the first season which was set in 1977. Agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench will continue to interview serial killers to […]
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- 12/10/2018
- by Frank Yemi
- Monsters and Critics
The “Atlanta Monster” podcast scrutinizes the belief that Wayne Williams, an aspiring music producer, killed nearly 30 young African-Americans from 1979 to 1981. The podcast’s co-creators, Payne Lindsey and Donald Albright, say that they’ve gone back and forth on his guilt or innocence — just like many of their listeners.
“He lied to me about some very crucial things,” Lindsey, who hosts “Atlanta Monster,” told TheWrap’s “Shoot This Now” podcast in an interview you can hear on Apple or right here:
Because Williams was convicted in the murders of two adult men — and sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars — prosecutors saw no need to charge him with the additional killings. But police also stopped searching for other suspects, since they said the killings stopped after his arrest.
Williams denies killing anyone, and some victims’ families don’t believe he killed their lost loved ones. But Lindsey and Albright, who had no personal ties to the case before starting the podcast, have reached some conclusions.
Also Read: 'Atlanta Monster' Creators Talk TV Show Potential, Expanding to Other Cities' Serial Killers (Exclusive)
“We go back and forth all the time,” said Lindsey. “In the beginning, I was like, he did it. In the middle, I was like, he didn’t do it. Almost to the end, I was like, he still didn’t do it. Then I was like, maybe he did it. Full disclosure: I think he definitely killed some kids… The fiber evidence, to me, is damning.”
Albright also changed his mind repeatedly, before ultimately deciding: “He’s hiding something… If you’re in jail for two murders, serving life, after 37 years, you wouldn’t be hiding anything anymore. So if you are still lying, you’re lying about something that’s probably murder.”
The Atlanta based-Lindsey and Albright, co-founders of Tenderfoot TV, are looking into a TV adaptation of “Atlanta Monster.” Their previous hit podcast, “Up and Vanished,” is in the works at the Oxygen network.
In the “Shoot This Now” interview, they start off discussing how Williams’ gift for talking without saying much sometimes made it hard for them to hit deadlines. At the end, they assessed whether Williams could have made it as a music producer if he hadn’t been sentenced to life in prison.
Also Read: That Time Frank Sinatra Tried to Stop a Serial Killer (Podcast)
They also explain why they don’t buy the theory that the CIA framed Williams for the killings after trying to recruit him: “If Wayne Williams was a threat, why is he still alive and talking on a podcast in 2018?” asked Albright.
Read original story ‘Atlanta Monster’ Host: Wayne Williams ‘Lied to Me About Some Very Crucial Things’ (Podcast) At TheWrap...
“He lied to me about some very crucial things,” Lindsey, who hosts “Atlanta Monster,” told TheWrap’s “Shoot This Now” podcast in an interview you can hear on Apple or right here:
Because Williams was convicted in the murders of two adult men — and sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars — prosecutors saw no need to charge him with the additional killings. But police also stopped searching for other suspects, since they said the killings stopped after his arrest.
Williams denies killing anyone, and some victims’ families don’t believe he killed their lost loved ones. But Lindsey and Albright, who had no personal ties to the case before starting the podcast, have reached some conclusions.
Also Read: 'Atlanta Monster' Creators Talk TV Show Potential, Expanding to Other Cities' Serial Killers (Exclusive)
“We go back and forth all the time,” said Lindsey. “In the beginning, I was like, he did it. In the middle, I was like, he didn’t do it. Almost to the end, I was like, he still didn’t do it. Then I was like, maybe he did it. Full disclosure: I think he definitely killed some kids… The fiber evidence, to me, is damning.”
Albright also changed his mind repeatedly, before ultimately deciding: “He’s hiding something… If you’re in jail for two murders, serving life, after 37 years, you wouldn’t be hiding anything anymore. So if you are still lying, you’re lying about something that’s probably murder.”
The Atlanta based-Lindsey and Albright, co-founders of Tenderfoot TV, are looking into a TV adaptation of “Atlanta Monster.” Their previous hit podcast, “Up and Vanished,” is in the works at the Oxygen network.
In the “Shoot This Now” interview, they start off discussing how Williams’ gift for talking without saying much sometimes made it hard for them to hit deadlines. At the end, they assessed whether Williams could have made it as a music producer if he hadn’t been sentenced to life in prison.
Also Read: That Time Frank Sinatra Tried to Stop a Serial Killer (Podcast)
They also explain why they don’t buy the theory that the CIA framed Williams for the killings after trying to recruit him: “If Wayne Williams was a threat, why is he still alive and talking on a podcast in 2018?” asked Albright.
Read original story ‘Atlanta Monster’ Host: Wayne Williams ‘Lied to Me About Some Very Crucial Things’ (Podcast) At TheWrap...
- 5/11/2018
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
“Atlanta Monster” co-creators Payne Lindsey and Donald Albright are far from done with the story of Wayne Williams and the Atlanta child murders: They’re holding Hollywood meetings about a possible TV docu-series, and want to expand their hit podcast to investigate other cities plagued by serial murders.
Lindsey and Albright, co-founders of Tenderfoot TV, detailed their plans to TheWrap Friday for our “Shoot This Now” podcast, about stories that should be made into TV shows and movies. You can listen on Apple or here:
The Atlanta-based duo were in Los Angeles Friday in large part because they’re adapting their previous podcast phenomenon, “Up and Vanished,” into a TV show for the Oxygen network. But they’re also going to some meetings about how “Atlanta Monster,” the most successful new podcast of 2018, could be made into what Lindsey, the host of the podcast, envisions as a premium docu-series.
Also Read: Here's a True Story About Slavery You've Never Heard: 'Django Unchained' Meets 'Ocean's 11' (Podcast)
“Atlanta Monster” follows the deaths of 28 African-American children and young men killed between 1979 and 1981. Authorities blamed Wayne Williams, an aspiring record producer, for all of the murders, though he was only prosecuted and convicted in the killings of two adult victims. Some loved ones of the murdered children believe they were killed by someone other than Williams.
Lindsey said there are already two scripted projects in the works about the case: Season 2 of Netflix’s “Manhunter” and a Regina King-John Ridley project for FX based on Kim Reid’s memoir, “No Place Safe.”
An “Atlanta Monster” docu-series could compliment the scripted projects, much as 2016’s “Oj: Made in America” complimented FX’s Ryan Murphy drama “People v Oj Simpson,” released earlier in the same year.
“I love scripted TV and that’s eventually where I want to go, but I think this story needs the docu-series,” Lindsey said. “It needs the documentary form of this. … telling the real story and adapting it that way.”
Lindsey and Albright are also looking to expand the format of “Atlanta Monster” to other cities. “Atlanta Monster” used the killings to highlight racial and socioeconomic issues in the Atlanta of decades ago that still reverberate nationwide. Albright and Lindsey say other cities’ serial murders could provide a similar frame for looking at broader problems.
Also Read: That Time Frank Sinatra Tried to Stop a Serial Killer (Podcast)
“We kind of set the tone with ‘Atlanta Monster’ because it’s not just murders in a place,” Albright said. “It’s how those murders affected that place. There are monsters all over the world.”
In an early episode of the “Shoot This Now” podcast, Matt Donnelly and I talked about how a fundraiser during the Atlanta murders, starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra, could be the basis of a scripted film. Albright and Lindsey wouldn’t rule out big-screen adaptations.
“It doesn’t really matter as long as we can do it right and do the city, the victims and the story justice,” Albright said.
Read original story ‘Atlanta Monster’ Creators Talk TV Show Potential, Expanding to Other Cities’ Serial Killers (Exclusive) At TheWrap...
Lindsey and Albright, co-founders of Tenderfoot TV, detailed their plans to TheWrap Friday for our “Shoot This Now” podcast, about stories that should be made into TV shows and movies. You can listen on Apple or here:
The Atlanta-based duo were in Los Angeles Friday in large part because they’re adapting their previous podcast phenomenon, “Up and Vanished,” into a TV show for the Oxygen network. But they’re also going to some meetings about how “Atlanta Monster,” the most successful new podcast of 2018, could be made into what Lindsey, the host of the podcast, envisions as a premium docu-series.
Also Read: Here's a True Story About Slavery You've Never Heard: 'Django Unchained' Meets 'Ocean's 11' (Podcast)
“Atlanta Monster” follows the deaths of 28 African-American children and young men killed between 1979 and 1981. Authorities blamed Wayne Williams, an aspiring record producer, for all of the murders, though he was only prosecuted and convicted in the killings of two adult victims. Some loved ones of the murdered children believe they were killed by someone other than Williams.
Lindsey said there are already two scripted projects in the works about the case: Season 2 of Netflix’s “Manhunter” and a Regina King-John Ridley project for FX based on Kim Reid’s memoir, “No Place Safe.”
An “Atlanta Monster” docu-series could compliment the scripted projects, much as 2016’s “Oj: Made in America” complimented FX’s Ryan Murphy drama “People v Oj Simpson,” released earlier in the same year.
“I love scripted TV and that’s eventually where I want to go, but I think this story needs the docu-series,” Lindsey said. “It needs the documentary form of this. … telling the real story and adapting it that way.”
Lindsey and Albright are also looking to expand the format of “Atlanta Monster” to other cities. “Atlanta Monster” used the killings to highlight racial and socioeconomic issues in the Atlanta of decades ago that still reverberate nationwide. Albright and Lindsey say other cities’ serial murders could provide a similar frame for looking at broader problems.
Also Read: That Time Frank Sinatra Tried to Stop a Serial Killer (Podcast)
“We kind of set the tone with ‘Atlanta Monster’ because it’s not just murders in a place,” Albright said. “It’s how those murders affected that place. There are monsters all over the world.”
In an early episode of the “Shoot This Now” podcast, Matt Donnelly and I talked about how a fundraiser during the Atlanta murders, starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra, could be the basis of a scripted film. Albright and Lindsey wouldn’t rule out big-screen adaptations.
“It doesn’t really matter as long as we can do it right and do the city, the victims and the story justice,” Albright said.
Read original story ‘Atlanta Monster’ Creators Talk TV Show Potential, Expanding to Other Cities’ Serial Killers (Exclusive) At TheWrap...
- 5/11/2018
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
‘Mindhunter’ Season 2: David Fincher Returning to Direct, Joined by Andrew Dominik and More — Report
Details surrounding “Mindhunter” Season 2 have been quiet over the last several months, but a new report from The Playlist brings some exciting news about the next batch of episodes. David Fincher, who executive produces the show and directed two episodes in the first season, will reportedly be back behind the camera for the Season 2 premiere and finale. Directors Andrew Dominik and Carl Franklin will join Fincher for Season 2.
Dominik is an indie favorite after directing “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” His other credits include the Nick Cave documentary “One More Time with Feeling” and the drama “Killing Them Softly,” which starred Fincher favorite Brad Pitt. Franklin, meanwhile, is a television veteran with directing credits on “13 Reasons Why,” “The Leftovers,” and Fincher’s own “House of Cards.” Dominik is reportedly filming two episodes, while Franklin will direct the remaining Season 2 episodes.
The Playlist notes Season 2 will only have eight episodes,...
Dominik is an indie favorite after directing “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” His other credits include the Nick Cave documentary “One More Time with Feeling” and the drama “Killing Them Softly,” which starred Fincher favorite Brad Pitt. Franklin, meanwhile, is a television veteran with directing credits on “13 Reasons Why,” “The Leftovers,” and Fincher’s own “House of Cards.” Dominik is reportedly filming two episodes, while Franklin will direct the remaining Season 2 episodes.
The Playlist notes Season 2 will only have eight episodes,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
While the “World War Z 2” script is still in development at Paramount, movies will have to wait for David Fincher for now; as we just revealed, the director is preparing to dive back into his critically-acclaimed Netflix serial killer series, “Mindhunter.”
Read More: ‘Mindhunter’ & More; The Best TV Shows Of 2017
Heading to Southern Georgia, “Mindhunter” season two will focus on the infamous Atlanta child murders of the late 1970s and early 80s, which featured the relatively uncommon case of an African-American serial killer —in real life, Wayne Williams, who was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two adult men, but never convicted of the deaths of twenty three murders of young children (though it’s unclear how close to the real events the show will hew).
Read More: ‘Mindhunter’ & More; The Best TV Shows Of 2017
Heading to Southern Georgia, “Mindhunter” season two will focus on the infamous Atlanta child murders of the late 1970s and early 80s, which featured the relatively uncommon case of an African-American serial killer —in real life, Wayne Williams, who was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two adult men, but never convicted of the deaths of twenty three murders of young children (though it’s unclear how close to the real events the show will hew).
- 4/19/2018
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Some people listen to true crime podcasts to become amateur sleuths, with evidence walls and meticulous tracking of details as the finer points of a crime from the past gets unspooled over any number of episodes. Many of these shows succeed because they parcel out breadcrumbs for the audience to follow, hooking them with a farewell cliffhanger week after week
Maybe “Atlanta Monster,” the series that’s been a fixture at the top of the podcast charts for a majority of 2018 so far, has found a following because it does precisely that at certain points. But as it’s drawn in listeners who were previously unaware of the kidnappings and murders from 1979-1981 that upended life in Atlanta, it’s also drawn strength from approaching this period of time in a way that doesn’t get bogged down by the usual trappings of many criminal biographies. Now four episodes into its run,...
Maybe “Atlanta Monster,” the series that’s been a fixture at the top of the podcast charts for a majority of 2018 so far, has found a following because it does precisely that at certain points. But as it’s drawn in listeners who were previously unaware of the kidnappings and murders from 1979-1981 that upended life in Atlanta, it’s also drawn strength from approaching this period of time in a way that doesn’t get bogged down by the usual trappings of many criminal biographies. Now four episodes into its run,...
- 1/26/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
I'm currently in the middle of watching David Fincher's Netflix series Mindhunter and it's one hell of a great show and absolutely fascinating. The story follows a couple of FBI agents in 1977 who are studying the minds of serial killers so that they help catch them faster because, “How do we get ahead of crazy if we don’t know how crazy thinks?”
The series is based on the 1996 nonfiction novel by Mark Olshaker and John Douglas‘ called "Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit." Even though it's a mostly fictionalized series, it is inspired by real-life events.
Thanks to series composer Jason Hill, we've learned what Season 2 is going to focus on. While talking to Billboard, he revealed that the second season will examine the Atlanta child murders. If you're not familiar with this tragic event it was a string of 28 murders, mostly children and adolescents,...
The series is based on the 1996 nonfiction novel by Mark Olshaker and John Douglas‘ called "Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit." Even though it's a mostly fictionalized series, it is inspired by real-life events.
Thanks to series composer Jason Hill, we've learned what Season 2 is going to focus on. While talking to Billboard, he revealed that the second season will examine the Atlanta child murders. If you're not familiar with this tragic event it was a string of 28 murders, mostly children and adolescents,...
- 10/17/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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