Lifetime pulls in Bill Pullman for the network’s 500th original movie
Ripped from the headlines to the nth degree, Lifetime’s 500th will be a two-night event. Get ready for The Murdaugh Murders: The Movie starring Bill Pullman
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Lifetime has announced its upcoming slate of “Ripped From The Headlines” thrillers for the fall, and they’ve got a true-crime behemoth lined up for its 500th movie. The network known for turning tales of women in danger into campy, ironic fun has trapped tapped Bill Pullman to play Alex Murdaugh as the lead of Murdaugh Murders: The Movie, which will be the network’s 500th original.
Like so many Lifetime movies, the actual case belies the cheesy good time of the film. Alex Murdaugh was convicted of the double homicide of his wife and son last March. Before his conviction, Murdaugh was a prominent South Carolina lawyer, the son of a 100-year legal dynasty in the state, and the center of a criminal clusterfuck that included murder, embezzlement, hitmen, and fraud. He was one of the most powerful men in South Carolina and is now presumably the focus of an entire genre of podcasts. Already being referred to as South Carolina’s “trial of the century,” the case is the subject of a popular Netflix docuseries, with a second season coming this month because, of course, Netflix already has a documentary about it.
Pullman will play Murdaugh, joining the likes of Rob Lowe and Christina Ricci who also played real-life killers for the network. The aptly titled Murdaugh Murder: The Movie will premiere over two nights, Saturday, October 15, and Sunday, October 15, at 8 p.m.
The latest batch of Ripped From The Headlines originals begins on September 16, with each installment airing on Saturdays at 8 p.m. The line-up includes Bad Romance: The Vicky White Story starring Wendi McLendon-Covey; Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Story starring Melissa Joan Hart; and the Lifetime debut of Vanderpump Rules main character Ariana Maddix, who will star in Buying Back My Daughter, which has the distinction of having the best title of the batch.
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That’s Independence Day/Spaceballs Bill, not Edge of Tomorrow/Aliens Bill!
To be fair if it had been the other Bill it would have been much bigger news.
For the record, it’s also not The Newsroom/Dumb and Dumber Jeff Daniels.He’s an honorary Bill in my book.
Yeah, I’ve never mixed up Pullman and Paxton, they have such different vibes. But Pullman and Daniels I’ve confused many times.
Also not Armageddon/Gone in 60 Seconds Will Patton.Still not a Bill but he worked near Capital Hill in No Way Out…
He can be another honorary Bill.
Saturday, October 15, and Sunday, October 15, at 8 p.m.Huh?
It’s a leap day.
They said what they said.
Has Lifetime ever made a movie where the protagonist is a woman who’s an executive at Lifetime, whose job it is to come up with movie plots for Lifetime, and she comes up with the plot of the movie she’s in, leading to an ouroboros of madness? Because they should.
I’d love to see the Lifetime version of Synecdoche, New York.
Married to Destiny: The Synechdoche, New York Story
They actually had an executive, Elena Rose, who was doing just that! …except after spending years building her high-powered career at the Lifetime network in New York City, New York, she was drawn back to the small Maine fishing village of Crabber’s Cove (“The Cozy Cove!”, pop. 507) to spend what was, according to the strained phone call with her estranged mother, likely to be her beloved grandmother, Mabel Hart, Crabber’s beloved florist and font of all folksy grandmatriarchal wisdom, final Christmas. Elena had only hoped to stay for few days, but the combination of rediscovering the charm, warmth, and slow-paced life of her hometown, as well as the biggest blizzard in 35 years that shut down all the roads out of town, led Elena to quitting her job in TV and taking over her grandmother’s florist shop, where she learned to arrange flowers while bonding with her meemaw, and where she met tall, handsome, fisherman Todd Hart, who instantly captured her heart…But is there more to Todd than meets his exceptionally blue eyes?
They’re calling it Murdaugh Murders: The Movie to distinguish it from the upcoming musical, concept album, and theme park ride at Universal Studios.
Which are all based on the novel ‘Push’, by Sapphire.
Reached for comment, Pullman said, “Look, it’s stated very clearly on my website: if you want me to do the ‘Independence Day’ speech, it’s fifty bucks.”
Only in Philadelphia is it worth 50 bucks though.
Bill Pullman’s got bills.
“I’m telling you, Honey, I used to be President of the United States! I fought off an alien invasion! You have to believe me!”
Bill Pullman in a Lifetime film- Directed by David LynchFound Highway