Who Was Ted Bundy? Zac Efron To Portray Notorious Serial Killer In New Movie

Zac Efron will be playing the role of the deadly serial killer, Ted Bundy, in a new movie, “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile,” that follows Bundy’s life.

The film will specifically be told from the perspective of Elizabeth Kloepfer, Bundy’s longtime girlfriend. It was reported that Kloepfer was the one who handed Bundy to the police after being in denial about who he really was for a very long time, The Guardian reported.

“Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile,” will be directed by Oscar-nominated film-maker Joe Berlinger. He has films like “Paradise Lost Documentaries”, which retells the story of the West Memphis Three, who were convicted but then declared innocent of the murder of three eight-year-olds. He has also directed the film, “Some Kind of Monster” which delves into the background of the heavy metal band, Metallica.

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Bundy has been the subject of interest for many criminal researchers and filmmakers over the years. His character was previously portrayed by Actor Mark Harmon in the 1986 television movie, “The Deliberate Stranger.”

He is considered one of the most notorious serial killers of all times, believed to be connected to more than 30 murders, and thought by many to have taken more than a hundred lives.

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Bundy used to rape and beat young women to death, who resembled his high school sweetheart, a physically attractive brunette. Even though there is no way of proving it, it has being suspected Bundy began his killing spree around 1974, Biography reported. His usual method of luring women into his trap was to pretend to be injured and appeal to their maternal instinct.

Incidentally, Bundy was brought up under the façade that his mother, who was in her 20s and unwed at the time, was his sister and that his grandparents were his adoptive parents.

The first thing that led the police to suspect Bundy were a collection of tools including a crowbar, a face mask, rope and handcuffs in his vehicle. After escaping from the police custody twice, Bundy was convicted in July 1979 of two murders at the sorority house Chi Omega in Florida State University. He received 2 death sentences for the same followed by a third for the murder of his last victim, Kimberly Leach.

Bundy went as far as appealing his case in the Supreme Court, urging the judge in vain to rule against the death sentences. He was also unable find a way out of the iron-clad case against him by offering up information about some of the unsolved murders related to him.

On January 24, 1989, Bundy was executed around 7 a.m. EDT by an electric chair at Florida State Prison.

By playing Bundy, Efron would be widening his acting scope as far as genres of movies and types of roles are concerned. He has been known to take up predominantly comic roles in the past in movies such as “Bad Neighbors” and “Dirty Grandpa.”

Even his latest film, “Baywatch” which is set to hit the theaters at the end of this month, is an action-comedy.