In what’s set to be a stark contrast to his role as heartthrob Austin Ames in A Cinderella Story, everyone’s favourite noughties crush Chad Michael Murray is set to portray serial killer Ted Bundy in the flick American Boogeyman.
According to Screen Daily, the 39-year-old One Tree Hill and Riverdale actor has officially signed on for the killer role, which will be written and directed by Daniel Farrands and set to hit cinemas around August through Voltage Pictures.
Farrands is no stranger to the genre, having previously worked on The Haunting Of Sharon Tate, and Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers.
According to the movie’s synopsis, the thriller is “set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America” and “follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer.’”
Murray is the latest in a slew of (very attractive) stars to play the fearsome killer, with Zac Efron famously starring as Bundy in the 2019 movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.
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Fellow 2000s hottie James Marsden also took on the villainous role in 2008’s The Capture of the Green River Killer, aaaand now I’m starting to realise that all my tween crushes are playing serial killers, which is… somewhat worrying.
Voltage Pictures president and COO Jonathan Deckter said of Murray’s inclusion in the upcoming release: “Ted Bundy is such a fascinated-ly divisive character and is the true personification of evil.”
“Murray is so talented and expertly captures Bundy’s charm and seductive nature, traits that the notorious killer exploited to win the trust of his victims as well as society.”
The flick will also star Insidious actress Lin Shaye as Mrs Bundy, Teen Wolf star Holland Roden as detective Kathleen McChesney, and Jake Hays as FBI agent Robert Ressler.
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