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Barry L. Levy Takes a ‘Stranglehold’ Over Boston Strangler Task Force
Barry L. Levy will direct Stranglehold, a movie about the Boston Strangler Task Force with Todd Garner and Sean Robins producing through their Broken Road company, reports Variety.
“Stranglehold tells the untold true story of the Boston Strangler Task Force, which was assembled as a special unit by the Massachusetts Attorney General to stop the serial killer after more than a dozen unsolved murders in the early 1960s. What no one could have predicted was that this group, led by a disgraced Boston Police Detective and a Hollywood psychic, would unearth an even more heinous crime.”
The Boston Strangler crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo, pictured above, who confessed and was sentenced to life in prison in 1967. He was stabbed to death in prison in 1973.
Levy is set to make his directorial debut and will helm from his own script. His screenwriting credits include Vantage Point and Paranoia.
The Solution Entertainment Group will finance the project and produce Stranglehold. Myles Nestel is producing with Lisa Wilson, and Stephen Emery is executive producing.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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