Lifetime Expands The Lizzie Borden Chronicles; See the Sizzle Reel!
Back in October we learned that Lifetime had greenlit a six-hour miniseries called “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles,” a follow-up to its popular film Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (review). Now the network has added two additional episodes to the project, which debuts in April.
Below are more details plus the sizzle reel that was shown during the currently under way Television Critics Association (TCA) Winter 2015 Press Tour.
Christina Ricci reprises her role as Lizzie. Clea DuVall, who portrays her sister, Emma; Jessy Schram; and John Heard also star.
“The Lizzie Borden Chronicles” is produced by Sony Pictures Television and executive produced by Judith Verno (Lizzie Borden Took an Ax) and Ricci. The limited series is written by Greg Small and Rich Blaney (Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret), Barbara Nance (“House of Lies”), Jason Grote (“Mad Men”), and David Simkins (“Grimm”). Stephen Kay (“Sons of Anarchy”) directs episodes one and two while Russell Mulcahy (“Teen Wolf”) directs episodes three and four and Howard Deutch (“American Horror Story”) helms episodes five and six.
Synopsis:
“The Lizzie Borden Chronicles” delivers an intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie Borden’s (Ricci) life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892, when the exonerated figure lives a life awash in newfound celebrity filled with scandalous love affairs. But when numerous people close to Lizzie – ranging from her half-brother, William (Andrew Howard), to Broadway luminaries and her business associate/underworld kingpin Mr. Flowers (Jonathan Banks) — start to mysteriously die under brutal and strange circumstances, legendary Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo (Cole Hauser) becomes determined to prove her involvement in their ultimate demise.
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