‘Helter Skelter’ to hit TV again
“Helter Skelter,” Vincent Bugliosi’s book about the Manson family killings of the 1960s, is going to be made into a TV movie by CBS for a second time, the Hollywood Reporter says.
The trade paper reported Monday that CBS has given its OK to a three-hour adaptation by John Gray that focuses on Charles Manson and how he persuaded his followers to commit the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders of which they were convicted by prosecutor Bugliosi.
The first “Helter Skelter” movie premiered in 1976 and focused on the pursuit and trial of Manson, who was portrayed by Steve Railsback.
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