The Home of Ryan Murphy is constant their custom of bringing terrifying programming to the lots with a brand new restricted collection concerning the infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Netflix has greenlit Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story restricted collection from Murphy and Ian Brennan, in keeping with Deadline.
Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) will co-star with Carl Franklin (Mindhunter) and Janet Mock (Pose) writing and directing the collection. Manufacturing is slated to start in January 2021. The ten-episode restricted collection will span the start within the 1960s and observe Dahmer till his arrest within the early ’90s.
Monster will inform the Dahmer story largely from the POV of the victims. Emmy-Winner Jenkins will play Dahmer’s father, a chemist, who taught Dahmer methods to protect animal bones when Dahmer was a toddler. Nonetheless, there is a nationwide casting search underway for an actor to solid because the infamous cannibal serial killer, and producers are additionally in search of an actress to play the lead feminine position of Glenda Cleveland, considered one of Dahmer’s neighbors who repeatedly tried to warn regulation enforcement of his conduct.
Franklin will direct the pilot episode. Mock will direct and write a number of episodes. The 2 government produce with Murphy and Brennan.