Actor Zac Efron is known to lean toward lighthearted and comical roles, and was recently in South Florida for the debut of his latest movie 'Baywatch.' But he will soon take on a more serious subject – as notorious serial killer Ted Bundy.
Efron will play Bundy in the film “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile”.
In an interview with Deadline, Producer Nicolas Chartier said "Efron can play both the depth and the charm that this guy had in equal measures which allowed him to manipulate these women in such a terrifying way."
The movie is being told from the perspective of Elizabeth Kloepfer, a former care worker who testified on Bundy’s behalf and later agreed to marry him.
Although she spent years denying his murders, Kloepfer eventually turned Bundy into police.
The actress to play the role of Kloepfer has yet to be revealed.
Bundy was convicted of the gruesome murders of two women, along with assaulting three others, inside the Chi Omega sorority house on the campus of Florida State University in January 1978 – as well as the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Lake City just weeks later.
Bundy’s trial for the FSU murders was moved to Miami, where he was convicted on July 24, 1979.
He was convicted the following year for the Lake City murder and sentenced to death in all three cases, which finally was carried out in 1989.
The movie is set to start filming in October of 2017.