You know… based on looks alone, this is great casting. Variety is reporting that Lou Diamond Phillips has signed to play notorious Los Angeles serial killer Richard Ramirez in The Night Stalker from writer-director Megan Griffiths.
Inspired by true events, the film incorporates Ramirez’s history of violence into a fictional narrative centering on a prison interview between the aging killer and a lawyer attempting to elicit a confession from Ramirez that will save another man from Death Row.
Ramirez, an avowed Satanist, was convicted of 13 murders as well as 5 attempted murders and never expressed any remorse. He died on Death Row in 2013 of complications from B-cell lymphoma.