‘Monster’ Season 4 in the Works at Netflix, Focused on Lizzie Borden

“Monster” Season 3 has yet to set a premiere date, but Season 4 of the hit Netflix anthology series is already in the works.

via: Deadline

It will tell the story of Lizzie Borden who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Casting for the lead role is currently underway, with the new season eying a fall start of production, sources said. Reps for Netflix declined comment.

The Borden murders and trial received extensive nationwide publicity in the U.S. and have remained part of American popular culture in the decades since. Lizzie Borden has been depicted in numerous film, television and theater adaptations, most recently in Lifetime’s The Lizzie Borden Chronicles starring Christina Ricci, and the 2018 feature film Lizzie starring Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart.

That was also the case with the second Monster installment, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. The tale of the famous Menendez murders had already been told on-screen many times but it was Murphy and Brennan’s take that captured the public’s attention and triggered a reexamining of the brothers’ conviction.

The franchise launched with Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which remains a Top 5 most popular Netflix English-language series of all time. Murphy announced the upcoming third installment, The Original Monster, starring Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein, at the premiere of The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

The news of Monster S4 was first reported by Nexus Point News.