Three Luigi Mangione Documentaries Are in the Works (So Far)
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Following his arrest, Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has become a trending topic in Hollywood, with a documentary, another documentary, and a TV show all in the works.
Big movie day
December 17, 2024: Luigi Mangione, suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on December 4, will be the subject of dueling documentaries. Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions and Anonymous Content were the first to announce, per Variety. Last year, Gibney was “hugely excited” to announce that he is working on an Elon Musk documentary as well. His previous work includes the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, a 2007 doc about the killing of an Afghani taxi driver by U.S. soldier, and his 2005 breakout, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, about the collapse of the energy company. The new documentary will not just follow Mangione but also explore larger questions about the value of life and death in America, Variety reported. We assume that will be entirely different from …
… This other documentary! Also announced December 16, the second Mangione-focused documentary is produced by Stephen Robert Morse, who directed the Emmy-nominated 2016 Amanda Knox for Netflix, per Variety. “This case is complex and raises important questions about vigilantism, the devastating cost of a privatized healthcare system and the inevitability of violence when peaceful change is seen as impossible,” Morse said in a statement. If anybody else has a Luigi-mentary they’d like to announce, submit an invoice and we’ll get back to you.
What about TV?
December 17, 2024: Investigation Discovery, the network that recently made Quiet on Set, is putting together an hour-long special that aims to air in February 2025. The working title is Who Is Luigi Mangione?, and it will be led by Dan Abrams. We can safely expect that the special will be released on Max, since both networks are owned by Warner Bros. The special will examine how “a young man of such wealth and privilege could seemingly commit such a heinous crime,” per a release. Of course TV had to get in on this.
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