Ryan Murphy is status his grassland.
The prolific and arguable TV writer and manufacturer, 58, has remained unfazed, as his display “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” has been slammed by way of the actual Menendez brothers.
“I have no interest in talking to them,” Murphy told Variety in an interview revealed Thursday.
He added, “… I’m very close, obviously, with Kim Kardashian, who has spoken to them. I love Kim, and I believe she does God’s work. I believe in prison reform. I believe in everything she believes in. I don’t know what I would say to them. What would I ask them? I know what their perspective is.”
“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” Los Angeles Premiere, Sept. 16, 2024. AFF-USA/Shutterstock
Erik, 53, and Lyle Menendez, 56, are these days serving age sentences in jail with out the opportunity of parole for the first-degree homicide in their folks, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.
They alleged that their father had sexually abused them.
The display, which premiered Sept. 19 on Netflix, is the second one season of Murphy’s “Monsters” anthology order. It all started with its first season, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which earned its superstar, Evan Peters, a Blonde Globe, and was Netflix’s 2nd maximum usual display, regardless of Dahmer’s actual age sufferers slamming the display.
“Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story” dramatizes the killings and the pains that ended with the brothers’ 1996 conviction. Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny superstar as their folks, era Cooper Koch performs Erik and Nicholas Alexander Chavez performs Lyle.
Nearest the display premiered, Erik Menendez spoke out in a statement on Lyle’s fb web page on Sept. 20.
“It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent,” he wrote.
Erik blasted Murphy and stated that the TV writer “shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and me and disheartening slander.”
Murphy instructed Selection, “The family’s response is predictable at best.”
“I find it interesting because I would like specifics about what they think is shocking or not shocking. It’s not like we’re making any of this stuff up. It’s all been presented before.”
Murphy, who may be recognized for the “American Horror Story” franchise and “Glee,” added that he believes that the display is “the best thing that has happened to the Menendez brothers in 30 years.”
He endured, “They are now being talked about by millions of people all over the world.”
“[The show is] asking people to answer the questions, ‘Should they get a new trial? Should they be let out of jail? What happens in our society? Should people be locked away for life? Is there no chance ever at rehabilitation?’”
Murphy stated that he’s “interested” in that matter, and population are speaking about it.
“We’re asking really difficult questions, and it’s giving these brothers another trial in the court of public opinion. From what I can tell, it’s really opened up the possibility that this evidence that they claim that they have, maybe that there is going to be a way forward for them.”
