No rest for the wicked, or Charlie Hunnam when it comes to Monster.
With the third season of Monster: The Ed Gein Story currently streaming atop the Netflix charts, season four of the true-crime anthology from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan has gone into production in Los Angeles.
The fourth season of the Emmy-winning Netflix hit stars season three star Hunnam along with Ella Beatty(Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) and will tell the story of the series’ first female “monster” Lizzie Borden, who will be played by Beatty.
Borden was famously tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her murder trial has been the subject of many retellings on film and TV, including the 1975 TV movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden, Lifetime’s 2014 Lizzie Borden Took an Ax and 2018’s Lizzie starring Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart.
Hunnam will play Andrew Borden with Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Corsage) as Bridget Sullivan, Rebecca Hall (Christine, Passing) as Abby Borden, Billie Lourd (American Horror Story, The Last Showgirl) as Emma Borden and Jessica Barden (The End of the F***ing World, Dune: Prophecy) as Nance O’Neill.
Max Winkler (Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Flower) will direct the first episode. Additional casting and production details will be revealed at a later date.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story released all episodes on Oct. 3 and quickly broke into Netflix’s Top 10 with 12.2 million views globally in its first three days.
The third season centers on Ed Gein, a murderer known to kill women, wear their skin and faces, and dig up graves. The Ed Gein season follows previous seasons, Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Each of those seasons sparked conversations around sensational portrayals of murder victims, and Ed Gein has also been stirring up some debate.
Before the show released, Hunnam told The Hollywood Reporter, “I never felt like we were sensationalizing it. I never felt on set that we did anything gratuitous or for shock impact. It was all in order to try to tell this story as honestly as we could. … What I would hope and feel really confident in is that it was a very sincere exploration of the human condition and why this boy did what he did.”
The fourth installment of Monster is the latest addition to a growing list of Netflix shows and movies being filmed in Los Angeles, including Monster: The Ed Gein Story as well as upcoming Nobody Wants This S2, Beef S2, Lincoln Lawyer S4, Nemesis, Worst Ex Ever S2 and films The Rip and Animals.
