‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’ to premiere September 19 on Netflix, drops teaser trailer [WATCH]
Netflix announced Tuesday morning that it’s rolling out “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” – the second true-crime anthology from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan – on September 19. The nine-part limited series follows the Emmy-winning 2022 saga “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” that earned a statuette for Niecy Nash-Betts. The streamer concurrently released a 48-second teaser trailer that serves to drum up interest in a story that became the stuff of tabloid legend. Watch the trailer above.
“Monsters” chronicles the real-life case of brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who on August 20, 1989 murdered their wealthy parents Jose and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez in the den of their Beverly Hills home. They were convicted of the ghastly crime in 1996. However, the logline for the series reads, “While the prosecution argued they were seeking to inherit their family fortune, the brothers claimed – and remain adamant to this day, as they serve life sentences without the possibility of parole – that their actions stemmed out of fear from a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents.
The series dives into the historic case that took the world by storm, paved the way for audiences’ modern-day fascination with true crime, and in return asks those audiences: Who are the real monsters? Javier Bardem stars as Jose Menendez, while Chloe Sevigny portrays his wife Kitty. Nicholas Alexander Chavez plays Lyle Menendez and Cooper Koch his brother Erik. Also cast are Nathan Lane as writer and investigative journalist Dominick Dunne and Ari Graynor as the Menendez brothers’ defense attorney Leslie Abramson.
The writers of “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” are Murphy, Brennan, David McMillan, Todd Kubrak and Reilly Smith. Directors are Brennan, Max Winkler, Paris Barclay, Michael Uppendahl and Carl Franklin.
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