Jason Clarke (Oppenheimer, Winning time) has signed on to play real-life killer Alex Murdaugh in the Hulu limited series Untitled Murdaugh Murders alongside Patricia Arquettewho plays the family matriarch, Maggie.
From the co-creator and showrunner Michael D. Fuller AND Erin Lee Carrthe true-crime drama follows Alex Murdaugh, who on the surface appears to have it all: wealth, status and unchecked privilege in rural Hampton County, South Carolina, where four generations of Murdaughs have built a vast legal dynasty.
But when a deadly accident puts the spotlight on Alex, his wife Maggie, and their sons Buster and Paul, the façade of the all-powerful Murdaugh begins to crumble, leading Alex to take increasingly desperate measures to preserve the family name and protect its dark secrets. .
In 2023, Alex Murdaugh was convicted of the murders of his wife and son Paul two years earlier. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. He was denied a new trial in January following his appeal.
Years before the murders, a school friend of Buster Murdaugh’s, Stephen Smith, was killed in what was believed at the time to be a hit-and-run accident.
In light of new evidence gathered about the Murdaugh family murders, Smith’s case was reopened by police and reclassified as a homicide. Buster Murdaugh denied any involvement in Smith’s death. No arrests have been made in the Smith case, but it is often linked to the cover-up of the Murdaugh family.
As told in the Netflix series Murdaugh Murders: A Southern ScandalAt 19, Paul Murdaugh was driving a boat while drunk when a girl in his group of friends was thrown from the moving vehicle, and her body was found eight days later, after she died in the accident.
The family always seemed to be tied to the deaths of those around them, and the murders of Paul and his mother Maggie were the final event that led to a conviction that ultimately stood.
The series is based on Maggie and Alex Murdaugh’s stranger-than-fiction family drama, an account drawn from countless hours of reporting by Mandy Matney, journalist and creator of the popular “Murdaugh Murders Podcast.”
Nick Antosca (A family friend, The Act) and Alex Hedlund of Eat the Cat will serve as executive producers alongside Matney.
via: Deadline
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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