EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has landed the package deal Homicide 101, with Jon Watts hooked up to direct. Watts may even produce alongside Dianne McGunigle and KT Studios’ Stephanie Lydecker. This follows a brisk public sale final week that had quite a few studios within the fray.
The movie kinds its foundation from the true story that unfolds within the KT Studios’ and iHearts’ #1 true crime podcast. Set in a small Tennessee city, the podcast instructed a narrative about how a bunch of highschool college students and their trainer Alex Campbell profiled an area serial killer. It led to his seize.,
Jon Watts most not too long ago directed Marvel Studios/Sony Photos’ Spider-Man: Homecoming Trilogy and directed and government produced the FX sequence The Outdated Man. Upcoming, Watts wrote, directed, and produced Wolfs, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, set for a fall launch from Apple Studios and Sony. He additionally co-created, directed and government produced the brand new Lucasfilm/Disney+ sequence Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, starring Jude Legislation.
The mission was discovered by McGunigle, who’s married to Watts and was affiliate producer on the Sundance hit Cop Automobile, the movie that acquired him into the Spider-Man trilogy that stars Tom Holland. She is prolific in her personal proper, producing the Searchlight Photos characteristic Chevalier, directed by Stephen Williams, and produced the upcoming Watts-directed characteristic Wolfs. On the small display she was an government producer on FX’s Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning sequence Atlanta.
Lydecker is the founder and CEO of KT STUDIOS—a real crime manufacturing facility that converts IP into podcasts, documentaries, and scripted content material. Lydecker is the chief producer and creator behind the #1 hit podcasts The Piketon Bloodbath, Dying Island, Homicide 101, and the presently airing The Idaho Bloodbath. Collectively, these three have amassed over 75 million listeners. She additionally government produced NBC Common’s Peacock and Oxygen’s hit documentary, The Pike County Murders: A Household Bloodbath, which grew to become the community’s most-streamed documentary. Additionally docus that embrace Murdered and Lacking in Montana, Injustice with Nancy Grace, and Discovering Justice. Further unscripted titles embrace The Bachelor, Nashville Star, American Idol, and Jersey Shore amongst many others.
Watts is repped by CAA and lawyer Gregory Slewett.
