Blumhouse Bringing Son of Sam to TV
Steve Barton
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Blumhouse Productions is moving from the big screen to the small for its latest project, which is based on Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz. Read on for the first details right here.
Deadline is reporting that Jason Blum’s production company is returning to the longform arena with another New York period piece based on a true story: miniseries “Son of Sam.” Blumhouse will develop the six-hour mini with Fox TV Studios (“The Killing”).
Written by Steven Katz (“The Knick,” “From the Earth to the Moon”), “Son of Sam” juxtaposes David Richard Berkowitz’s murder confession of Satan worship and human sacrifice with the actual police investigation of December 1975-1977. For almost two years, the Son of Sam terrorized New York City, killing six people while eluding a massive manhunt and taunting the police with brazen letters. The spree finally came to an end in August 1977 when Berkowitz was arrested and confessed to the crimes, claiming he was possessed by demons.
In the 1990s, while serving six life sentences, he recanted part of his original confession, insisting that he was part of of a Satanic cult with fellow members carrying out some of the killings, but those claims were never substantiated. On screen, the case was the focus of Spike Lee’s 1999 movie Summer of Sam and the 1960 CBS movie Out of the Darkness. Blum and CAA-repped Katz executive produce the mini with Dan Halsted of Manage-ment (Nixon). Blumhouse’s head of television Jessica Rhoades co-exec produces.
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