Anna Kendrick Directing True Crime Film "THE DATING GAME" Based On Serial Killer Rodney Alcala!

Anna Kendrick is taking on an infamous serial killer in her directorial debut titled ‘THE DATING GAME’. The crazy part about this film is it all actually happened when Rodney Alcala was a contestant on a matchmaking show with the same name…but he hid a terrible secret. He was a wanted serial killer!

Deadline reports today that Kendrick will be directing The Dating Game for AGC Studios, telling the true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala’s appearance on “The Dating Game.”

Deadline reports, “Kendrick will also produce and star in the flick, which is from a Black List script by Ian MacAllister McDonald and is based on the stranger-than-fiction true story of Cheryl Bradshaw, who was a bachelorette on the hit 70s TV matchmaking show The Dating Game and chose handsome and funny bachelor number one, Rodney Alcala. But behind Alcala’s charming façade was a deadly secret: he was a psychopathic serial killer.”

“I’ve loved this script from the moment I read it,” Kendrick said. “And while I was obviously thrilled to be playing the character of Sheryl, I felt so connected to the story, the tone, and the themes around gender and intimacy, that when the opportunity came up to direct the film, I jumped at it. It feels meant to be. The support I’ve received already from Stuart Ford and everyone at AGC, Vertigo, and BoulderLight has been inspiring and empowering.”

Producers include J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules for BoulderLight Pictures (Gone in the Night, Becky, The Vigil) and Roy Lee and Miri Yoon for Vertigo Entertainment.

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