Anna Kendrick is starring in and directing a new film about “Dating Game Killer” Rodney Alcalá …and she just released the first trailer, and it’s super interesting.
The film is called “Mulher da Hora” and will arrive on Netflix later this month… with Anna playing Cheryl Bradshawthe woman Alcala won a date with in a 1978 episode of the classic game show.
Cheryl backed out of meeting Alcala after meeting him because she found him “creepy”… and years later, a California jury found that Alcala had been on a murder spree before his TV debut.
Alcala was ultimately convicted of murdering several women and a child in Orange County… and was suspected of or linked to murders in Washington, Arizona, New York and New Hampshire.
The serial killer died in 2021 while on death row in California.
Anna is making her first attempt at directing here, and Netflix describes her film as the “stranger-than-fiction story of an aspiring actress in 1970s Los Angeles and a serial killer in the midst of a years-long murder spree.” , whose lives intersect when they’re cast in an episode of The Dating Game.”
The film will be released on October 18th on Netflix.
