Anna Kendrick is starring in and directing a brand new film about “Relationship Recreation Killer” Rodney Alcala … and he or she simply launched the primary trailer, and it is tremendous attention-grabbing.
The film is named “Girl of The Hour” and it is coming to Netflix later this month … with Anna enjoying Cheryl Bradshaw, the girl who Alcala gained a date with in a 1978 episode of the traditional recreation present.
Cheryl infamously bailed on the date with Alcala after truly assembly him, as a result of she discovered him to be “creepy” … and years later, a California jury discovered Alcala had been on a killing spree earlier than his TV debut.
Alcala was in the end convicted of killing a number of girls and a toddler in Orange County … and he was suspected or linked to murders in Washington, Arizona, New York and New Hampshire.
The serial killer died in 2021 whereas on loss of life row in California.
Anna’s taking her first shot at directing right here, and Netflix describes her film because the “stranger-than-fiction story of an aspiring actress in Seventies Los Angeles and a serial killer within the midst of a yearslong homicide spree, whose lives intersect once they’re solid on an episode of The Relationship Recreation.”
The flick drops Oct. 18 on Netflix.