William Forsythe will portray the famed Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, in the biopic Dear Mr. Gacy directed by Svetozar Ristovski, according to Production Weekly. Forsythe recently starred in Rob Zombie's reboot of Halloween, along with The Devil's Rejects. Check out the full release beyond the break from the Hollywood Reporter.
"Monster" producer Clark Peterson is tracking down another serial killer. Peterson will produce "Dear Mr. Gacy," based on the real-life story of Jason Moss, a college student who became obsessed with notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
William Forsythe ("The Rock," "88 Minutes") will play Gacy, while Jesse Moss, who stars in Paramount's current release "The Uninvited," will play the role of Jason Moss.
European director Svetozar Ristovski ("Mirage") will make his English-language debut with the feature, directing from a script by Kellie Madison. Gordon Yang is also producing, while Tom Berry and Madison are exec producing.
The project is based on the memoir "The Last Victim" by Jason Moss, who began corresponding with Gacy in 1994, the last year of the killer's life. Moss eventually met Gacy on Death Row and even narrowly escaped an attack by him.
The twentysomething went on to gain a measure of celebrity from his interactions with Gacy, but his story ended tragically when he committed suicide in 2006. His book has been described by critics as a real-life "Silence of the Lambs."
"The theme here is once you encounter that kind of darkness, it's hard to escape it," Peterson said. "Jason seemed to be a success because he had this encounter with John Wayne Gacy, wrote a book and went on tele¬vision. But ultimately it came to a tragic end."
The project is slated to begin shooting in Vancouver this month. Berry's Reel One is financing.
In addition to "Gacy," the CAA-repped Peterson is producing "White Jazz," based on James Ellroy's sequel to "L.A. Confidential," with Joe Carnahan attached to direct, and is producing the David Goyer-penned reimagining of David Cronenberg's "Scanners," which is set up at Dimension.
The producer made his name with "Monster," which tells the story of Aileen Wuornos, a Florida prostitute turned serial killer. The movie was a $34 million hit for Newmarket in 2003 and earned Charlize Theron a best actress Oscar.
Mikey: Mark Holton, in my opinion is an incredible actor. I enjoyed his portrayal of Gacy very much. To each their own, it is weird seeing his in some of his more family oriented films first (Pee-Wee's, Litle Giants, The Teen-Wolf flicks), and even his lovable portryal of Ozzie in Leprechaun, and then seeing him in Gacy.
I have no thoughts on this new Gacy movie.
For the record, I loved Gacy with Francis from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure...Almost as much as I liked Dahmer with Jeremy Renner...
I am very interested in this new one, cuz of the book "Last Victim." I knew Jason Moss before his suicide and before he wrote the book. He dated my sister in high school a bit and one of the interesting things about his story is that in his letters to Gacy he would pretend to be weak (the ideal victim) but he was actually really tough and buff. So, when they finally met, Gacy was bummed. He wrote to other serial killers on death row too and got some interesting correspondence - even with Dahmer before he was murdered in prison.
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