Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen to Star in True Crime Limited Series About JonBenét Ramsey at Paramount+
Melissa McCarthy (Gilmore Girls, Bridesmaids) and Clive Owen (Children of Men, Monsieur Spade) have signed on to star in a true crime limited series tentatively titled JonBenét Ramsey at Paramount+. McCarthy will play JonBenet Ramsey’s mother Patsy Ramsey, and Owen will play father John Bennett Ramsey in the project.
Production will begin shortly in Calgary, Canada, with Richard LaGravenese serving as showrunner and executive producer. Four of the eight episodes, including the first episode, will be directed by Anne Sewitsky (Presumed Innocent), who will also serve as executive producer.
The series was created and written by Harrison Query and Tommy Wallach who sold it as a pitch to producers MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios.
“JonBenét Ramsey explores the tragic unsolved murder of the eponymous six-year-old beauty queen. It follows the Ramsey family, before and after the tragedy as they go through the painful loss of a child while facing intense public scrutiny caused by a media frenzy that caused this case to captivate an entire nation.
At the heart of the series, it is the story of Patsy and John Ramsey – exploring the unbreakable partnership of these two complex people – as husband and wife, as mother and father – who had committed themselves and their children to building the narrative of a perfect, privileged life only to have it destroyed one Christmas night in 1996.
“Reported missing from her Boulder, Colorado home on December 26, 1996, JonBenét Ramsey was found dead several hours later in the basement of the home, along with a long ransom note. An autopsy revealed the cause of death as strangulation and was ruled a homicide.
“Boulder police initially believe JonBenét’s mother, Patsy, had written the ransom note, and that the note and child’s body had been staged by her parents in an effort to cover up the murder. Her brother, who was 9 at the time of JonBenét’s death, was cleared as a suspect in 1999.
“In 2013, unsealed court documents revealed that a 1999 grand jury had recommended filing charges against the Ramseys, which included hindering the prosecution, but the DA determined there was insufficient evidence to pursue a successful indictment. The case remains cold to this day.”
This case has always been such a sad one. There has been a lot of new information that has come out since it happened, and it sounds like this series will cover it in depth.
via: Deadline