Oscar nominee Jacob Elordi will star in a new film adaptation of Norman Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer-winning novel “The Executioner’s Song” at United Artists.
Elordi will also produce the film as well as playing the key role of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore convicted for killing two men in Utah. The work chronicles the true story of Gilmore who insisted on being executed for his crimes.
Fighting attorneys for a legal system intent on keeping him alive long after it sentenced him to death, Gilmore became a national media sensation.
He was also the first person executed in the United States following a four-year de facto moratorium on capital punishment.
Lawrence Schiller directed the original 1982 film adaptation which was penned by Mailer. Tommy Lee Jones starred as Gilmore in that version and won an Emmy award for his work.
Scott Stuber, Nick Nesbitt, Matt Vioral and Sherry Marsh also produce while Schiller will executive produce.
Source: Deadline
