By Charlie Hunnam has scored the lead role of notorious serial killer Ed Gein in the third season of Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” anthology series at Netflix.
Murphy made the announcement onstage in Los Angeles tonight during a promotional event for the show’s second season which launches on Thursday.
That run focuses on the Menendez brothers and the murder of their parents. The first season focused on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer with Evan Peters taking on the role.
The Wisconsin-born Gein was infamous in 1957 after authorities discovered not only had he kileld multiple people, he had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned clothing and household items from the remains.
The infamous case directly inspired several onscreen serial killer characters including Norman Bates in “Psycho,” Leatherface in the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs”.
It continues a TV hot streak for Hunnam who has recently been shooting the series adaptation of the “Criminal” graphic novels at Amazon.
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