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Here’s What Monster Creator Ryan Murphy Actually Said About A Potential Luigi Mangione TV Drama

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For the past few days, you may well have seen one or two headlines indicating that TV super-producer Ryan Murphy is considering Luigi Mangione as a potential future subject of his true crime anthology series Monster.

Earlier this week, Variety published an interview with the Emmy winner about the upcoming third season of his award-winning Netflix drama, which will focus on the notorious serial killer Ed Gein this time around.

During the conversation, Murphy defended his show from accusations that it’s “exploitative”, insisting he instead hopes to “provoke the question” about society with each season about a different societal theme, using various real-life murder cases to do so.

He also ruled out future seasons about John Wayne Gacy (“there’s nothing redemptive there?”) and Ted Bundy (“when you look at those crimes, what are the themes there? It doesn’t ask you any questions about society”), which is when the subject of Magione was then raised.

So, what did he actually say?

Luigi Mangione in December 2024
Luigi Mangione in December 2024

via Associated Press

Well, speaking to the US outlet, Murphy revealed that he and his team “have a ‘maybe one day’ file” of ideas for future seasons of Monster that “just aren’t ready yet”.

He then said that one such concept would be a season about Magione, the 27-year-old who is currently in police custody, accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson, the CEO of the American health insurance organisation UnitedHealthcare.

According to Variety, Murphy quickly dismissed the idea of focussing on Mangione after he, in their words “deemed it too early to proceed”.

“We know nothing about him,” the Emmy winner pointed out.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story will debut on Netflix on Friday 3 October, with a fourth run of the controversial show already in production.

The next iteration will be the first to centre around a female killer, with Ella Beatty set to reunite with Ryan Murphy for the new series, which she’ll lead as Lizzie Borden, sharing the screen with other Murphy-verse alum including Billie Lourd and Vicky Krieps.

Rebecca Hall and British performer Jessica Barden will also be part of the cast of the show, which Netflix said will tell the story of “the infamous young woman accused of murdering her parents with an axe”.

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‘That’s A Sickness’: Donald Trump Criticizes Fans Of Shooting Suspect Luigi Mangione

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President-elect Donald Trump called the glorification of shooting suspect Luigi Mangione a “sickness,” criticising people who have celebrated the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York earlier this month.

“I think it’s really terrible that some people seem to admire him, like him. And I was happy to see that it wasn’t specific to this gentleman that was killed. It’s just an overall sickness as opposed to a specific sickness,” Trump said on Monday during a wide-ranging press conference in Florida.

“It was cold-blooded, just a cold-blooded, horrible killing,” he went on. “And how people can like this guy is — that’s a sickness, actually. That’s really very bad. The way it was done. It was so bad. Right in the back. Very bad.”

Trump also suggested that some of the gleeful online posts about Thompson’s death could be fake, adding that “it’s hard to believe that that could even be thought of, but it seems there’s a certain appetite for him. I don’t get it.”

Mangione, 26, has been charged with murder in Thompson’s killing. He was arrested in Pennsylvania last week and remains in custody there. Police said his fingerprints match prints that investigators found on a water bottle and a granola bar wrapper near the scene of the shooting in Manhattan.

Mangione described his anger toward corporate America in a “manifesto” published last week. Words etched on shell casings at the scene ― “deny,” “defend,” “depose” ― also echoed a phrase commonly used to describe insurer tactics to avoid paying claims.

Some people online have expressed support for Mangione and glee over the death of a top health industry CEO. Others condemned the killing but said the industry deserves the scorn and criticism, due to insurance practices that prioritise profits over people’s lives and well-being.

“All of that pain that people have experienced is being concentrated on this event,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told reporters last week. “It’s really important that we take a step back, this is not to comment and this is not to say that an act of violence is justified, but I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them.”

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