Netflix has acquired the three-part docuseries “This is the Zodiac Speaking,” which promises new insight about the unsolved murder case of the Zodiac Killer. The series, which comes from Ample Entertainment and is directed by Ari Mark and Phil Lott, offers up new interviews and clues that places even more evidence that the only person to ever be named a suspect — Arthur Leigh Allen — may likely be the true culprit.
“There’s only a handful of real murder case IP that are not only quintessentially American, but really define an era,” Mark said. The Zodiac case, he said, “also defines the true crime genre in a lot of ways.”
In the series, tentatively scheduled to drop on October 23, Mark and Lott speak to a California family who once had Allen as a teacher, as well as family friends of the suspect. As they go through archival and physical evidence owned by the family, they connect more dots between Allen and the Zodiac murders.
Mark and Lott noted that the family started to piece things together after watching David Fincher’s 2007 film about the murders, “Zodiac.”
“Fincher filmed at the real sites of the murders, and they realize, ‘maybe he really was the Zodiac killer, because he took us to all these places,'” Mark said. “And they started uncovering all these letters that he’d been writing back and forth with their mother that are the most incriminating letters in the world.”
Mark and Lott also had access to author Robert Graysmith, who wrote the book that was adapted into Fincher’s film. “We had access with him in a way that nobody has really had,” Mark said. “He really put this in perspective for us.”
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