Review Manhunt: Unabomber (2017) Aug 1st

Doctor Omega

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First Promo: Bettany, Worthington In “Unabomber”


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The first trailer has arrived for the Paul Bettany and Sam Worthington-led eight-episode event series “Manhunt: Unabomber” at Discovery.

The story follows how the FBI captured Ted Kaczynski (Bettany), one of the most infamous criminal masterminds in the world better known as the Unabomber.

Worthington is FBI agent Jim ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald, one of the most decorated profilers in the history of the bureau, whose radical approach to intelligence gathering ultimately took Kaczynski down.

Chris Noth, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Jane Lynch, Mark Duplass, Michael Nouri, Brian d’Arcy James, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Elizabeth Reaser, Ben Weber, Jeremy Bobb and Lynn Collins also star.

Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti’s Trigger Street and Lionsgate Television produced the series with Greg Yaitanes (“Quarry,” “Banshee”) serving as showrunner. The series premieres August 1st.



 

Amyghost

Member: Rank 3
Given all the to-do over it when he was finally caught, I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to do a dramatized version of Kaczynski's story. Might be not bad, but it's always hard to get these true-life crime dramas right, very few of them ever come off as anything more than sensationalized 'tv-movie-of-the-week' run of the mill.
 
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