The HBO Max miniseries is inspired by the chilling story of the Betty Gore murder. (HBO Max)

In a career twist and a departure from her popular Marvel persona as Wanda Maximoff, Elizabeth Olsen now stars as a housewife accused of murdering her neighbor with an axe. This in the new HBO Max drama love death.

The upcoming miniseries has big creatives behind it, with Olsen and Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons headlining. The production is slated for release in April, with writer David E. Kelly (Boston Legal there big little lies) and director Lesli Linka Glatter (Mad Men).

Elizabeth Olsen explained that this tragedy will be shown from another angle.  (HBO Max)
Elizabeth Olsen explained that this tragedy will be shown from another angle. (HBO Max)

The story of this project begins in 1980, with a quiet housewife from Texas named Candy Montgomery who ended up killing her friend and parishioner with an axe. The killing was brutal: Montgomery, 30, hit Betty Gore 41 times with the gun, while Gore’s young daughter slept several rooms away.

After removing her blood-soaked clothes, she picked up her children from school and had a sleepover. Several months later, the shocking murder case went viral, culminating in an even more shocking court verdict: Montgomery was found not guilty. the woman had pointed out that the murder had been committed in self-defense.

Jesse Plemons is also involved in the project.  (HBO Max)
Jesse Plemons is also involved in the project. (HBO Max)

Four decades later, the scandalous incident continues to spark curiosity and interest in the story continues. After a 1990 TV movie adaptation, starring Barbara Hershey and a Hulu miniseries released last year and hosted by Jessica Biel. The creator of this project is the Emmy-winning writer for big little lies, david e. Kelly.

The seven-episode production, which premieres April 27, stars Elizabeth Olsen as Candy, Lily Rabe as Betty, and Jesse Plemons as Betty’s husband Allan, whose affair with Candy precipitates the death of her daughter. female.

Elizabeth Olsen returns to television after starring in "Wanda vision".  (HBO Max)
Elizabeth Olsen returns to television after her starring role in ‘Wandavision’. (HBO Max)

Realizing that she is unhappy with her marriage, Candy chooses Allan, her friend’s husband, as her lover after meeting him at a church volleyball game. “Candy decides she’ll have an affair to fill the void in her life, but she doesn’t choose the most obvious option for a partner because what she really wants is to connect with someone” , she said in a recent interview with vanity loungeLesli Linka Glatter.

In another interview, Plemons, who plays Allan, explained, “At the time in Texas, mental health care or therapy wasn’t on the table. So they found someone to listen to. They had a nice, helpful friendship that was romantic in its own way, but it was also a way of speaking honestly in a way that I don’t think they’ve had the chance to do before.”

The project is based on the book "Proof of love: a true story of passion and death in the suburbs", by Jim Atkinson and Joe Bob Briggs.  (HBO Max)
The project is based on the book “Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs”, by Jim Atkinson and Joe Bob Briggs. (HBO Max)

As we know, the real Candy Montgomery changed her name and lives in Georgia, but she had nothing to do with the production of her story on HBO Max. “She never did a public interview,” Plemons noted. “I think he worked very hard to reinvent himself a life after such public humiliation. I was hoping not to add more negative energy to this, but to try to understand it as best I could with the information I had. had.”

For the investigation, the book by Jim Atkinson and Joe Bob Briggs was used Proof of love: a true story of passion and death in the suburbswhich includes exclusive interviews with the Montgomery and Gore families, as well as the two-part feature film Love and Death in Silicon Prairie of Robert Udashen, one of the attorneys in the case and who also acted as counsel.

Ahead of the premiere of this miniseries, you can see Candy which is available on Star+.

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