EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, who has made films about Enron, Scientology and Russian President Vladmiri Putin, has set his sights on another controversial figure: Luigi Mangione.
Gibney, who has been working on the project since the end of last year, has now sold the project to Hulu.
The streamer has greenlit the untitled project with filming underway.
It comes nine months after Mangione allegedly gunned down Brian Thompson, CEO of health insurance company UnitedHealthcare in broad daylight in midtown Manhattan. Mangione was charged with four federal crimes including murder and was formally indicted in April.
Gibney’s untitled film will highlight how the killing of Thompson on a New York City sidewalk transfixed the public. It will explore explores the complicated story beneath the headlines and investigate “how the spectacle of violence can obscure deeper truths”.
Gibney directs and will produce via his Jigsaw Productions company with Anonymous Content also producing. Trevor Davidoski and John Jordan will produce. Gibney, Razan Ghalayini and Richard Perello will exec produce for Jigsaw with Jessica Grimshaw and David Levine exec producing for Anonymous Content.
It is Gibney’s latest project for Hulu; he co-created and directed the first episode of scripted series The Looming Tower, which told the story of the threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and the rivalry between the FBI and CIA.
Gibney, who is working on an Elon Musk documentary, recently directed HBO’s The Dark Money Game and Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos, and produced The Bibi Files, an inside look into the corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It joins Hulu’s doc slate, which includes recent projects such as God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty, Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons, Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence, Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told and Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke, which was Hulu’s biggest docuseries premiere to date.
“Following our collaboration on Looming Tower, I am delighted to join forces with Hulu to tell this powerful and important story,” said Gibney. “In the tradition of previous Jigsaw investigations, I think that people who think they know the story will be surprised and moved by the details hiding behind the headlines.”
