Evan Peters is JEFFREY DAHMER in Netflix and Ryan Murphy’s New Limited Series
Mike Sprague
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Evan Peters (American Horror Story, WandaVision) will play the title character in Ryan Murphy and Netflix’s limited series Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
The 10-episode series will span the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, and early ’90s. It will chronicle Dahmer’s story largely from the point of view of his victims. It will dive deep into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed him to go on a multi-year killing spree.
The series will cover at least 10 times where Dahmer was almost caught. It will also touch on white privilege. After all, Dahmer was a clean-cut white guy. Maybe that had a part in cops (and judges) repeatedly giving him a free pass with his petty crimes.
Niecy Nash (Scream Queens) also joins as Dahmer’s neighbor. She repeatedly called the cops (and the FBI) about his behavior, but was ignored. Penelope Ann Miller and Richard Jenkins will play Dahmer’s mother Joyce and father Lionel.
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Shaun J. Brown will play Dahmer’s last victim who managed to escape and lead cops to Dahmer’s apartment, resulting in his arrest. Colin Ford (Daybreak) will play Chazz.
Ian Brennan co-created the series. Carl Franklin will direct the pilot episode. Janet Mock will direct and write several episodes. They also executive produce with Murphy and Brennan. David McMillan rounds out the writer’s room with Brennan and Mock. Rashad Robinson serves as supervising producer. Alexis Martin Woodall and Eric Kovtun are executive producing. Scott Robertson is a co-producer.
The last time we saw the serial killer on the screen was in writer-director Marc Meyers’s My Friend Dahmer with Ross Lynch. Meyers’s haunting, sad, funny, true story of Dahmer in high school was based on Derf Backderf’s graphic novel.
The synopsis went like this: Jeff Dahmer (Ross Lynch) is an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school with a family life in ruins. He collects roadkill, fixates on a neighborhood jogger (Vincent Kartheiser), and copes with his unstable mother (Anne Heche) and well-intentioned father (Dallas Roberts).
He begins to act out at school, and his goofball antics win over a group of band-nerds who form The Dahmer Fan Club, headed by Derf Backderf (Alex Wolff). But this camaraderie can’t mask his growing depravity. Approaching graduation, Jeff spirals further out of control, inching ever closer to madness.
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