It’s like, wow, this is just so bizarre for my suburban existence. “It was a mix of fear and, honestly, titillation. “I, as a parent now, would never have done this, but my parents - different era, obviously - I used to go into Times Square as a 13 and 14-year-old kid, taking the train to Grand Central to Times Square,” he said. “When I was a teenager and I was deeply into magic as my hobby, there was a magic store called Lou Tannen’s that was on 47th and Broadway,” he said. Looking back, Berlinger realizes his trips to Times Square as a teenager may have been more dangerous than he realized at the time. So to me, this felt like a perfect Crime Scene because Times Square in the 70s was this perfect storm of various phenomenon that aided and abetted somebody like Richard Cottingham to prey upon sex workers with impunity.” But why do certain places have more crime than others? … What are those aspects that make crime possible? Which is the idea for the series.
“Normally we just look at a crime who did it, how they do it, and break it down.
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“What we’re trying to do with the series is to turn the genre on its head a little bit by looking at a location,” he said. He went on to direct multiple other true crime docuseries including Killing Richard Glossip Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers and Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. The first documentary in his Paradise Lost trilogy premiered in 1996, following the tragic story of three eight-year-old Arkansas children who were murdered by a group of teenagers dubbed the West Memphis Three in 1993.
That’s it! That’s the perfect Crime Scene,” Berlinger told MovieMaker.īerlinger is no stranger to the true-crime genre - in fact, you could say he specializes in it. It’s such a different place.’ And then, literally, the light bulb went off. We walked out and it’s the bright lights and it’s so Disney-fied, and I said to my daughter… ‘When I was 14 or 15, I’d go to Times Square and I’d be taking my life into my hands. “It was the first time I’ve actually done a Broadway show at Christmas time. And now it looks like at some point down the line we’ll be seeing a film based on the memoirs of Damien Echols.Berlinger got the idea to focus on Times Square for Season 2 when he took his daughter to a Broadway production of Hamilton in 2019.
Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth are attached to star. While West of Memphis and Paradise Lost: Purgatory take the documentary approach in telling the story, the upcoming Atom Egoyan directed Devil’s Knot will be a dramatic take on the tale, based on the book by Mara Leveritt. Given how widely publicized the story was, especially after the original Paradise Lost film debuted, it’s understandable that there’s more interest than ever to understand what happened to lead to the three wrongful convictions, and speculate over what really happened to those children. But three men, who were just teenagers when the crimes were committed, spent eighteen years and seventy-eight days in prison before being released last year after new DNA evidence produced led to a deal that resulted in their release. The mystery of the murders of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas is unsolved, and it will stay that way until the person or people responsible for their deaths are brought to justice.
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