Lifetime Announces Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles Miniseries
Now here’s something we didn’t see coming… Lifetime announced today that it has greenlit a six-hour miniseries called “Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles,” a follow-up to the network’s popular film Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, which premiered earlier this year.
Christina Ricci will again portray notorious murder suspect Lizzie Borden with Clea DuVall also set to return as her sister, Emma.
Per THR’s The Live Feed, “Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles” will be a fictionalized account of the actual events and people surrounding Lizzie’s life after her controversial acquittal of the double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892. When numerous people close to Lizzie — ranging from her half-brother to Broadway luminaries and the head of the criminal underworld — start to mysteriously die under brutal and strange circumstances, legendary Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo (Cole Hauser, Good Will Hunting) becomes determined to prove her involvement in their ultimate demise. Emmy nominee John Heard (“The Sopranos”) will portray William Almy, the business partner of Lizzie’s murdered father, Andrew, while Lizzie’s half-brother William will be played by Andrew Howard (Limitless, The Devil’s Chair).
The miniseries will be written by Greg Small and Rich Blaney (“Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret”), Barbara Nance, Jason Grote, and David Simkins. Stephen Kay will direct the first two episodes. It hails from Sony Pictures Television and original producer Judith Verno and will premiere in 2015. Ricci will also exec produce.
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (review), which premiered in January, ranks as Lifetime’s second-most-watched movie telecast among women, second only to Flowers in the Attic.
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