Andrew Garfield's New True Crime Show Was Originally Planned As A Movie
Andrew Garfield's new true-crime show Under the Banner of Heaven was initially planned to be a movie. Garfield is coming off a string of top-shelf performances in theOscar-nominated films Tick, Tick… Boom! and The Eyes of Tammy Faye, the former of which earned in an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. He also returned to the role of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home, a film that currently holds the title of the highest-grossing film of the pandemic era with nearly $2 billion.
Now, Garfield's latest project has debuted. The actor stars in Hulu's true-crime limited series Under the Banner of Heaven as Jeb Pyre, a detective investigating the 1984 murder of Brenda Lafferty and her baby daughter Erica. Based on the book of the same name by Jon Krakauer, the series will explore the ideologies of the Mormon religion, its fundamentalist groups that still practice polygamy, as well as the extremist sect the School of the Prophets to which the Laffertys belonged. In preparation for his role, Garfield traveled to Utah to meet with current and former Mormons to immerse himself in that culture.
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Screen Rant caught up with Hulu's Under the Banner of Heaven creator Dustin Lance Black for an exclusive interview. The writer-director explained that he originally planned the story as a film but quickly realized that he needed more room to adequately explore the Laffertys' family as well as the history of the Mormon church thoroughly. Read what Black said below.
«The biggest challenge, hands down, was recreating that feeling when you read it. Frankly, let's be honest, I set it up as a movie first and, it was a mistake. There wasn't room to do that. There
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