![]() That this ambitious book, written by late poet and academic Conrad Hilberry, is getting a dramatic adaptation is a testament to how hard development execs are hustling for the next big thing, I’d wager. Choosing to focus more on the texture of the men’s lives than on the crimes themselves, Hilberry explores the movement of their thoughts and the ways in which they have each dealt with their brutal childhoods and their lives in prison. Conrad Hilberry based his account on interviews with the two men, their friends, the woman whom they both married, and prison officials. The events described in the book have the drama of fiction, but are very real events. In 1964, Luke Karamozov (née Ralph Searl) confessed to killing five men over a three-month period following in his grisly footsteps was his younger brother, Tommy Searl, who was sentenced for the rape and murder of four young women in or around the brothers’ hometown of Kalamazoo. Luke Karamazov is the true story of two brothers who were convicted of serial murders. The movie is based on decades-old book Luke Karamazov, a Wayne State University Press entry in their Great Lakes Books Series that’s described as “an unusually vivid and detailed study of two contrasting psychological types drawing on Ernest Becker’s Denial of Death.” Wait, where are you going? Let me attempt to lure you back: He Went That Way isn’t the most SEO-friendly title (see the current top result in Google if you don’t believe me), but it’s the one chosen for the “true crime story of celebrity animal trainer Dave Pitts and his famous TV chimp, Spanky, centerpiece of the traveling extravaganza The Ice Capades, and his fateful three-day encounter with the serial killer Larry Lee Ranes,” Deadline report s. Joe Exotic isn’t the only animal-adjacent true-crime tale headed to a screen near us. The real Dave Pitts (Zachary Quinto) and Spanky (a human/robot combo) In a perfect world, and for Sarah’s sake, I hope this means that Joe Exotic is inappropriate for broadcast in an amazing, edgy way, not in a “this show sucks” way. So, did Rovner say “folks, this is too weird for TV” or what? Your interpretation, please:ĭespite this arguable demotion, Quaid jumped aboard. Let’s read between the lines of this paragraph, shall we?ĭeadline understands that the decision came after Susan Rovner, Chairman, Entertainment Content, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, who joined after the series was purchased, and her team saw scripts and heard more about the producers’ vision of the show, which is more suited to the streaming environment than traditional broadcast television. Instead, Deadline reports, the show will be Peacock only. ![]() That whole meta weirdness might be why plans to air Joe Exotic across NBC, Peacock, and USA were scrapped last month. You sort of had to assume a level of irony with McKinnon and Mitchell on board, I guess, but including the guy who made the show that spawned this and a jillion other projects takes this thing to a whole other meta level. And now, Variety reports, Dennis Quaid will join as Rick Kirkham - that’s right, the producer of the Tiger King series, himself. McKinnon, as you might recall, plays Carole Baskin John Cameron Mitchell is in the title role. In any case, Quaid In Full will soon have a new property to evaluate: Peacock series Joe Exotic, that Kate McKinnon-starring dramatic take on the Tiger King yarn. As you likely know, my better Best Evidence half is also the co-host of the Quaid In Full podcast, which “rates, reviews, and ranks every single televisual work in which Dennis Quaid appears.” So, she’d probably be better at writing this than I would - but, then again, I used to live directly across the street from the Breaking Away car lot, so maybe it’s a toss-up. ![]() ![]() Sarah’s going to kill me for taking this one. ![]()
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