Overview
- Music Box Films picked up the feature after its Sundance run, where it won the NEXT Innovator Award.
- The Lafferty estate declined to option The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up, halting Shackleton’s planned traditional documentary.
- Built from long, static Bay Area images and a candid voiceover, the film reconstructs the unmade doc while dissecting familiar tropes such as moody title sequences and suggestive reenactment cues.
- The release began November 21 at New York’s IFC Center, with expansion to additional cities including San Francisco on November 28 and a Los Angeles Q&A hosted by Elijah Wood on November 25.
- Shackleton distances the project from naming a culprit, voicing skepticism about popular suspects as Netflix pursues a separate Arthur Leigh Allen-focused production.