Evan Peters will play Jeffrey Dahmer in Ryan Murphy’s next crime series

Familiar with terrible characters, Evan Peters will play one of America’s most infamous serial killers for a new Netflix series.

The “American Horror Story” and “X-Men: Apocalypse” actor is set to take on the title role in “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which will be co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. According to Deadline, the cast of the series also includes Richard Jenkins, Penelope Ann Miller and Niecy Nash.

Although the details are scarce, “Monster: the Jeffrey Dahmer story” will be more of a psychological thriller than terror, and it is said to chronicle the subject’s many years of killing from the perspective of one of his victims.

The series will also see Dahmer’s case through the topical lenses of white privilege, dramatizing at least 10 cases in which the Wisconsin native – described in press releases as “a good-looking and good-looking white guy” – received a free pass of lenient police and judges. Although no release date has been announced, the pilot episode will be directed by Carl Franklin.

Dahmer, alternatively known as “Milwaukee Cannibal” and “Milwaukee Monster”, murdered and quartered 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991. He also committed necrophilia and cannibalism in several of his victims, many of whom were people of color and some underage. age. Convicted of 16 murders, he died in 1994 at the age of 34 after being beaten by another prisoner, Christopher Scarver.

“Monster” is not the first Hollywood project inspired by Dahmer’s crimes. The 2002 biopic “Dahmer” starred Jeremy Renner in the title role, while Disney Channel star Ross Lynch played the serial killer during his teens in 2017’s “My Friend Dahmer”, based on the John “Derf” comic strip. Backderf of the same name.