Netflix has announced “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” the second instalment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology series about “monstrous figures who have impacted society”.
The story will focus on Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty, at their Beverly Hills home in 1989.
The brothers were tried twice for the murder of their parents. The first was a deadlock, the second resulted in life sentence (without parole) convictions for both brothers on charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
The brothers have said in court they suffered lifelong abuse from their parents and shot them out of fear for their lives. The streamer says they have “exclusive access” to the brothers for a forthcoming documentary.
The case itself was a media sensation in the early 1990s and the likes of Fox, CBS and Lifetime have all done TV movies about them. The one-off “Law & Order: True Crime” was also focused on the case.
The series will follow on from last year’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” which starred Evan Peters as the serial killer along with Niecy Nash as his neighbor.
That series was a runaway success for the streamer – becoming Netflix’s third most popular English-language series ever of its first 28 days of release. Due to that success, Netflix ordered two more instalments and turned the series into an anthology.
No other writers or producers are attached at this point.
Source: THR
