Ryan Murphy has picked his newest
The director has set his sights on for the next installment of his dramatized true crime series, following the success () of “DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” in 2022.
Netflix announced on Aug. 20 that “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is set to launch on the streaming platform on Sept. 19, 2024 via a teaser clip for the series. The announcement date was the 35th anniversary of their parents’ murder.
The series is set to star Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny as José and Kitty Menendez, and Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch as Lyle and Erik Menendez, according to Netflix.
Erik and Lyle Menendez, now 53 and 56, were convicted in 1996 of killing their parents in a case that shook Southern California and beyond when the trial was broadcast on televisions across the country.
Prosecutors argued the brothers killed their parents for financial gain in inheriting their estate, while the defense argued the brothers feared for their safety after a lifetime of abuse at the hands of their father.
The series synopsis says the new season “dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks those audiences: Who are the real monsters?”
Netflix had previously announced the Menendez brothers would be the subject of the next installment of the anthology series in May 2023.
The opened with the famed 911 call from then 21-year-old Lyle Menendez, moments after he and his younger brother Erik Menendez shot and killed their parents in their Beverly Hills, California, home on Aug. 20, 1989.
“Someone killed my parents,” Lyle Menendez yelled on the call, before telling the dispatcher he had just arrived home to find his parents dead from gunshot wounds.
Jose Menendez, a 45-year-old business executive, was shot at point-blank range in the back of the head, and 47-year-old Kitty Menendez was shot multiple times in the living room of their home.
According to an the brothers falsely said they were away from their home the night of the murders. The couple’s oldest son, Lyle Menendez, was arrested on March 8, 1990 and charged with their murder. Erik Menendez, who was traveling abroad at the time, surrendered to authorities three days later.
Their case became a national sensation when their first murder trials were broadcast on Court TV in 1993. Erik and Lyle Menendez’s trials ended with hung juries in 1994.
The brothers were tried again in 1995, this time without cameras in the courtroom, and. Judge Stanley M. Weisberg ruled testimony of their father’s alleged abuse would not be admissible in the new trials, .
Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, and both were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996.
Murphy’s “DAHMER” series was a massive hit on Netflix when it was released in October, reaching 1 billion view hours in its first 60 days, making it only one of four series to achieve the record, .
But the show also , some of whom said the show never reached out to them and humanized the actions of the notorious serial killer.
Netflix announced in November it would that would feature “other notorious figures who left their mark on society.”
The streamer added it has “exclusive access to Lyle and Erik Menendez for a forthcoming documentary feature.”
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