The heavy metal frontman steps into his first dramatic role.
Ted Bundy was America’s boogeyman throughout the 1980s. He was a nightmare figure, wrapped inside an unassuming frame, and tied with a pretty boy smile. Having confessed to murdering over 30 women in multiple states between the years 1974 and 1978, Bundy has been the macabre focus of various pop culture excursions. He was the subject of Ann Rule’s infamous memoir “The Stranger Beside Me,” the true crime made-for-tv-movie The Deliberate Stranger, and Eminem’s creeper “Stay Wide Awake,” and now, Zac Efron will find humanity behind the monster in Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile.
According to Variety, director Joe Berlinger has cast Metallica frontman James Hetfield as the police officer who arrested Bundy following a traffic stop in 1979. Hetfield has contributed voice work for Metalocalypse, The Simpsons, and American Dad, and he’s even made a guest appearance as himself in the television series Billions, but this will be his first real foray into live-action acting. Along with Efron, Hetfield joins an already eclectic cast including Lily Collins, John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, and Jim Parsons.
The musician and director developed a relationship during the production of Berlinger and the late Bruce Sinofsky’s Paradise Lost trilogy, which focused on the wrongful conviction of the “West Memphis Three.” Metallica’s music found itself center stage during the trial, as the three teenage suspects had their taste in music and film scrutinized for deviant behavior. From there, Berlinger and Sinofsky made the documentary Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, which obsessively scrutinizes the band’s contemptuous relationship while they try to record their album St. Anger.
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