Anna Kendrick will make her directorial debut with true-story thriller “The Dating Game,” which she’ll also star in and produce.
The “Up in the Air” actress will play Cheryl Bradshaw, who was a contestant on the popular matchmaking show “The Dating Game” in 1978. She ended up choosing Rodney Alcala, who seemed like the perfect bachelor – until he turned out to be a psychopathic serial killer. (As of his death in 2021, he was convicted of seven murders.)
Kendrick will direct from Ian McDonald’s screenplay. The script was included in the 2017 Black List, a collection of the best unproduced scripts of the year.