Remember when Rob Zombie said he was done with horror? Yea, not so much anymore. He already has a new horror film in the works and now is in talks for for a project working with American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis for Fox. Variety reports:
“Writer Bret Easton Ellis and director Rob Zombie have teamed with Alcon Television to develop a project for Fox that will revisit the people and events connected to the Manson Family murder spree in August 1969.
“The project is envisioned as a limited series, but it is in the very early stages of development with Fox. Ellis is set to write the script and some additional materials. Zombie is on board to direct.”
The Ellis-Zombie collaboration aims to tell converging stories of people and events leading up to and after the murders, from shifting points of view. The project is envisioned as a multipart series, but it is one of many limited series projects in the works and is far away from receiving a greenlight.
The idea for the project began with Zombie and Adam Kolbrenner and Robyn Meisinger of Madhouse Entertainment. They developed the concept and brought it to Ellis and Alcon. To date, no source material has been optioned for the project, which plans to take an original approach to dramatizing stories drawn from the historical record.
So could this be a TV series for the FOX network? Or perhaps for one of their new cable channels like FXX? Zombie, a horror fanatic knows a thing or two about Charles Manson and honestly this whole thing sounds really appealing to me. Sign me up!
