What Is Tom Holland's New TV Show? 1970s Transformation Explained
Tom Holland’s upcoming show, The Crowded Room, gives the Spider-Man star a 1970s look, but what is it about? The Apple TV+ anthology series is based partly on the true story of Billy Milligan, a.k.a. «The Campus Rapist.» The show only recently started filming, so it likely won’t be out until 2023, at the earliest. As such, details about the true-crime show are currently scarce, but there is some basic information about its subject and premise out there that can be gathered now.
In the late 1970s, Billy Milligan was put on trial for multiple counts of robbery, kidnapping, and rape, but he avoided prison by way of pleading insanity. Various psychiatric hospitals examined Milligan and concluded that he had more than 20 different personalities, with several of them taking the blame for the crimes. Milligan was the first person to be acquitted of a major crime thanks to dissociative identity disorder. His story is the subject of Daniel Keyes’s award-winning nonfiction novel The Minds of Billy Milligan and, more recently, the Netflix documentary series Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan.
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Billy Milligan’s story is set to be adapted again in The Crowded Room, with Tom Holland cast in the lead role and also serving as an executive producer. The story takes place in the 1970s, so it makes sense for the actor to have a look that would be commonplace in that decade. This part of Milligan's life also happened between his early twenties and early thirties, so Holland, who is 25 at the time of writing, should be in the correct age range. Uncharted star Holland will be joined in the series by The Dropout's Amanda Seyfried, plus Emmy Rossum, Sasha Lane,
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