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Zodiac Killer Project’ Trailer Debuts as Music Box Sets November Theatrical Launch

The Sundance NEXT Innovator winner reframes leftover footage from a collapsed Zodiac documentary to interrogate the true-crime form.

Overview

  • Music Box Films will open the film in New York on November 21, followed by San Francisco on November 28 and Chicago and Glendale, CA on December 5, with more cities to follow.
  • Charlie Shackleton assembles interviews and B-roll from a scrapped project about a highway patrolman’s effort to identify the Zodiac killer, drawing on an attempted adaptation of Lyndon E. Lafferty’s book.
  • Critics describe the result as a witty, self-reflexive deconstruction of contemporary true-crime storytelling.
  • The feature premiered at Sundance and won the festival’s NEXT Innovator Award before touring international festivals.
  • IndieWire premiered the trailer, with additional coverage and the video posted by The Film Stage.