Lifetime has introduced that they’re creating a film primarily based on the tragic story of Gabby Petito, the younger lady who was lacking, then discovered to have been murdered by her boyfriend whereas on a cross-country highway journey. Emmy-nominated actress Thora Birch (The Strolling Useless, American Magnificence) is connected to co-star within the movie in addition to direct in her helming debut.
Birch will play Gabby’s mother within the movie, Nichole Schmidt. Deadline stories that the film, a part of Lifetime’s Cease Violence Towards Ladies public affairs initiative, comes because the anniversary of Gabby Petito’s disappearance and homicide approaches this fall.
The movie “will discover Gabby and her fiancé Brian Laundrie’s sophisticated relationship and what might have gone fallacious throughout their cross-country journey that resulted in Gabby’s tragic homicide. The film will movie in Utah this summer season and premiere later this yr.”
Lifetime additionally will create a brand new PSA to debut as a part of the film’s rollout, driving to the necessary work of the community’s coalition of companions to offer assets for girls. As a pacesetter in telling highly effective tales of girls and offering a platform to shine a light-weight on unheard voices, Lifetime is in improvement on a number of films surrounding violence in opposition to ladies who might not have had the identical media consideration as Gabby Petito. These embrace the tales of Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, Adriane Fields and Beatrice Weston, amongst others, with every mission in numerous levels of improvement.
