Netflix is increasing its crime class with an upcoming collection primarily based on the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez.
The 2 brothers, who have been 21 and 18 years outdated once they murdered their mother and father in 1989, have been discovered responsible of killing José and Mary Louise Menendez and have been sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole. Regardless of rising up in a rich household, due to their father’s work within the leisure trade, Lyle and Erik claimed throughout their courtroom trials that they suffered from bodily, emotional, and sexual abuse all through their childhood.
The Menendez household story turned a high-profile case, and now Netflix, together with the creators who labored on the Dahmer collection starring Evan Peters, is ready to launch a collection primarily based on their case. The present will star Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Lyle), Cooper Koch (Erik), Javier Bardem (José), Chloë Sevigny (Mary Louise, also called, “Kitty”), and extra in main roles.
The official trailer, launched on Tuesday, August 27, exhibits the Menendez household posing for a portrait whereas the mother and father’ voices play within the background. “I must know what’s occurring with you and the boys,” Mary Louise says. José responds, “What do you imply?” After extra dialog, José whispers, “It’s over, it’s completed… I’m going to repair this household.” Within the subsequent scene, the brothers, bathed in blue gentle, share an embrace as one says, “It’s simply us now, we’re on our personal.”
The present can be a part of the crime anthology collection Monsters, which initially started with govt producer Ryan Murphy’s launch of Dahmer, detailing the case of serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. In line with The Hollywood Reporter, Murphy mirrored on the making of the collection, saying, “We weren’t a lot serious about Jeffrey Dahmer, the individual, however in what made him the monster he turned… It’s actually about white privilege, systemic racism, and homophobia.”
In line with the New York Put up, the platform’s description states that the present “dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way in which for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks these audiences: Who’re the true monsters?”
The Menendez story is ready to debut on the streaming platform beginning September 19.
