{"id":5373,"date":"2014-03-01T20:50:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T03:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5373"},"modified":"2014-03-09T20:54:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T03:54:38","slug":"bret-zombie-manson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/01\/bret-zombie-manson\/","title":{"rendered":"Bret Zombie Manson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/tv\/news\/bret-easton-ellis-rob-zombie-team-on-manson-murders-project-for-fox-exclusive-1201122838\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Variety<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Bret Easton Ellis, Rob Zombie Team on Manson Murders Project for Fox (Exclusive)<\/h1>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/author\/cynthia-littleton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Cynthia Littleton<\/a>\u00a0 \/\u00a0<\/strong>Editor-in-chief: TV \/ \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@Variety_Cynthia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Variety_Cynthia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bret Easton Ellis, Rob Zombie Team\" src=\"http:\/\/pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/rob-zombie-brett-easton-ellis.jpg?w=640&amp;h=360&amp;crop=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-original=\"http:\/\/pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/rob-zombie-brett-easton-ellis.jpg?w=640&amp;h=360&amp;crop=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Writer\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_bret-easton-ellis\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/t\/bret-easton-ellis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag=\"bret-easton-ellis\">Bret Easton Ellis<\/a>\u00a0and director\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_rob-zombie\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/t\/rob-zombie\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag=\"rob-zombie\">Rob Zombie<\/a>\u00a0have teamed with Alcon Television to develop a project for\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_fox\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/t\/fox\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag=\"fox\">Fox<\/a>\u00a0that will revisit the people and events connected to the Manson Family murder spree in August 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The project is envisioned as a limited series, but it is in the very early stages of development with Fox. Ellis is set to write the script and some additional materials. Zombie is on board to direct.<\/p>\n<p>Zombie has long been fascinated by the Manson Family slayings, which left seven people dead in the Los Angeles area. Among the victims were actress Sharon Tate, who was eight and a half months pregnant at the time with the child of director Roman Polanski, and prominent Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring.<\/p>\n<p>The killings were so gruesome, and the stories of\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_charles-manson\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/t\/charles-manson\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag=\"charles-manson\">Charles Manson<\/a>\u2019s level of control of his drug-addled young followers so disturbing, that Manson was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy charges even though he was never found to have committed a homicide himself.<\/p>\n<p>Manson\u2019s clutch of cult followers have been suspected of many other murders during that era. But it was sheer brutality and psychopathic theatricality of the killings (complete with messages written in blood at the crime scenes) unleashed on Aug. 8-9, 1969, that jolted the nation\u2019s psyche.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/tv\/news\/bret-easton-ellis-rob-zombie-team-on-manson-murders-project-for-fox-exclusive-1201122838\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Variety.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Variety Bret Easton Ellis, Rob Zombie Team on Manson Murders Project for Fox (Exclusive) Cynthia Littleton\u00a0 \/\u00a0Editor-in-chief: TV \/ \u00a0@Variety_Cynthia Writer\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis\u00a0and director\u00a0Rob Zombie\u00a0have teamed with Alcon Television to develop a project for\u00a0Fox\u00a0that will revisit the people and events connected to the Manson Family murder spree in August 1969. The project is envisioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}