Elizabeth Olsen to play Dallas-area ax killer Candy Montgomery in HBO Max series
It’s the second Hollywood project in the works about Montgomery, who was acquitted of murder in 1980.
Candy Montgomery leaves court in 1980. Montgomery was found not guilty of murdering her Wylie neighbor Betty Gore.(DMN File)
On June 13, 1980 a Friday the 13th schoolteacher Betty Gore was hacked to death with an ax in her suburban home in the Collin County town of Wylie. The killer was then-30-year-old Candy Montgomery. She had been having an affair with Gore’s husband, Allan Gore. The couple’s baby, not yet a year old, lay in her crib for hours as her mother’s body went undiscovered in another part of the house.
Elizabeth Olsen to play infamous axe murderer in new project ANI | Updated: May 06, 2021 16:08 IST
Washington [US], May 6 (ANI): It has recently come to light that Hollywood star Elizabeth Olsen will soon portray convicted killer Candy Montgomery in a new HBO Max series, titled Love and Death .
According to E! News it was revealed that the WandaVision star will play Candy Montgomery, a Texas woman who was convicted for murdering her friend with an axe in 1980 in the new HBO Max series.
The upcoming series by TV writer and producer David E. Kelley, titled Love and Death , is produced by Lionsgate and is inspired by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson s book, Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs , and their Texas Monthly series.
John Cameron Mitchell Joins Kate McKinnon in Joe Exotic Miniseries
John Cameron Mitchell joins Kate McKinnon in Joe Exotic miniseries
As Amazon is currently at work developing the Nicolas Cage-led drama on the figure after acquiring it from CBS Studios, NBCUniversal’s Joe Exotic miniseries has added
Hedwig and the Angry Inch writer/star John Cameron Mitchell as Exotic, who joins previously-cast Kate McKinnon (
I’m thrilled to take on the role of this modern folk antihero,” Mitchell said. “
Joe and I are the same age and like him, I grew up queer in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas so I feel like I know a little bit about this guy and his desperate attempt to conquer an inhospitable world.”
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Hedwig s John Cameron Mitchell to Play Joe Exotic in NBCU TV Series
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John Cameron Mitchell
He ll star opposite Kate McKinnon in the drama from Universal Content Productions and showrunner Etan Frankel.
First Hedwig, now Joe Exotic.
John Cameron Mitchell, who won Tonys for writing and starring in Broadway s
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, will take on the role of Joe Exotic Schreibvogel in the scripted limited series that is set to air across NBCUniversal s linear and streaming platforms. As previously announced,
Saturday Night Live Emmy winner Kate McKinnon will star as activist Carole Baskin in the drama from Universal Content Productions and showrunner Etan Frankel.