“Rocketman” star Taron Egerton and “Richard Jewell” actor Paul Walter Hauser are set to lead the six-hour mini-series “In With the Devil” which Apple TV+ is nearing a series order for.
Based on the true-crime memoir by James Keene, the story follows young Chicago man and promising football player Keene (Egerton) who got stuck with a decade-long prison sentence with no chance of parole.
The prosecutor who put him behind bars also earlier had convicted a man named Larry Hall (Hauser) for abducting and killing a fifteen-year-old – just one of perhaps nineteen other women he killed.
As Hall could be released on appeal, the prosecutor offered Keene the chance to be released early if he could ingratiate himself with the murderer, in prison, and get him to confess to at least two more killings.
Michael R. Roskam will direct from a script by Dennis Lehane and shooting will take place in New Orleans.
Source: Deadline