Many TV titles that tell true and bloody facts. Ray Liotta, who died last May, appears for the last time in the psychological thriller with Taron Egerton
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A former football champion, handsome, charismatic and popular. He is arrested for drug dealing and possession of weapons. He faces ten years in prison but has a chance to get out of it: take advantage of his charisma to unmask a serial killer and thus have the freedom. To do this, he must enter theinfernoa maximum security prison in which his life is at risk everyday.
This is the plot of Black Bird, psychological thriller from today on Apple TV that has two peculiarities. The first is that it is one story that really happened in the nineties. The protagonist, Taron Egerton – the face to Elton John in Rocketman – plays Jimmy Keene, a character who really accomplished the feat. The second is that it is the latest work by Ray Liotta, who passed away on May 26th. “I wrote the part of Jimmy’s cop father with him in mind – says the author, D
ennis Lehanethe same as Mystic River e Shutter Island -. I had to struggle a little to make him desist from playing even the younger version of himself. He had one such vitality which was electric. Really difficult to keep in check. “
In addition to Egerton and Liotta, there are also in the cast Greg Kinnear as the police officer conducting an investigation into the murder of a dozen young girls, e Paul Walter Hauser (“Richard Jewell”), who plays the alleged serial killer. Based on the autobiographical book by James Keene, «In With the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption»the series saw the truth on the set James Keene. “Having him with us made the difference – said Egerton -. The personal relationship between my character and the serial killer was full of nuancesa complicated psychological plot that had to do with trust, camaraderie, violence and misogyny. That trip to hell it cost Jimmy Keene a lot, in physical but also psychological terms, I had him on the set to remind me of it ».
Black Bird
is just one of the many TV series that tell real and bloody facts that have taken place in America for the past forty years and now become material for a narrative.
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for example, streaming on Hulu, which stars Jessica Biel as Candy Montgomery, a Texas housewife who killed in June 1980 in ax blows the neighbor, wife of her lover. OR The Staircaseon Sky and Now, which chronicles the case of the writer Robert Peterson accused of having killed his wife
, found in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs of their home. Sentenced and then released from prison, we still wonder, twenty years after the fact, if he really killed his wife or if she is alone fall down the stairs.
According to a report by the United Nations every day in the world they are killed 137 donne from a family member. A growing phenomenon and TV is adapting. Under the Banner of Heavenwhich will arrive on Disney + from the end of July, sees Andrew Garfield playing the policeman investigating the violent murder, which occurred in the 1980s, of a woman and her child within the community of the Church of Latter-day Saints. Investigations focus on girl’s familywhose Mormon creed borders on the fundamentalismand the detective, also from the religious community, must question the case and his own wedding ring.
The Thing About Pamon Nbc, with Renée Zellweger and Josh Duhamel, was born as what seems to be the story of yet another murder and instead tells of a ‘sick friendship and opportunist. The Girl From Plainville (Hulu) with Elle Fanning, Chloë Sevigny and Colton Ryan, tells another recent story in the American news, the case of Michelle Cartersentenced for manslaughter for inducing her boyfriend to suicide.
And now Hollywood is preparing to tell the story of the very recent crime of Gabby Petitothe 22-year-old killed by her boyfriend last summer during a vacanza on the road. The one guilty, Brian Laundriehe then killed himself by leaving a note explaining who the girl was fall into a cliff causing serious injuries and that he had put an end to hers suffering. Stranger than fiction, it is said in the United States. No fictional story would go that far. Now in the mountains of Utah, actress and director Thora Birch has started shooting this one sad story.
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