- Luigi Mangione was charged last week over the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
- The race is on to be the first to make a true crime show about him.
- Two documentaries and an hourlong special have been announced so far.
True crime has a new protagonist: Luigi Mangione.
Since Mangione was arrested and charged with murder last week over the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the media and public have been mining information about his past, including by scouring his social media accounts, to learn every detail about his life.
This week, news outlets reported that three documentaries about the 26-year-old and the shooting were in the works.
Thompson was shot and killed by a masked person outside a Manhattan hotel on December 4. Mangione was arrested on December 9 after being found in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and later faced local gun and forgery charges alongside the murder charge.
The shooting has had a huge cultural impact, sparking conversations about what is seen as the normalization of violence in the US and the state of the healthcare system. It seemed inevitable that true crime shows would follow at a time when the genre’s popularity is at its height.
After pictures of Mangione emerged following the shooting, some X users joked that Ryan Murphy, who is behind true crime dramas including “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” would make a show about him. Others speculated which actors should portray Mangione.
Here’s what we know about the upcoming projects.
