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According to The Hollywood Reporter, producer Clark Peterson, whose credits include the Oscar-winning MONSTER, returns to serial-killer cinema with DEAR MR. GACY. The movie is based on the memoir THE LAST VICTIM by Jason Moss.

Award-winning Macedonian director Svetozar Ristovski makes his English-language debut on the movie, which recounts the real-life correspondence between college student Moss and the imprisoned child murderer. Moss wound up visiting Gacy on Death Row and almost became one of his victims; following the book’s publication, he committed suicide in 2006. “The theme here is once you encounter that kind of darkness, it’s hard to escape it,” Peterson tells the trade. “Jason seemed to be a success because he had this encounter with John Wayne Gacy, wrote a book and went on television. But ultimately it came to a tragic end.”

THE DEVIL’S REJECTS’ William Forsythe has been cast as Gacy, and Jesse Moss (no relation to Jason, and currently on screen in THE UNINVITED) will play the young protagonist. Kellie Madison scripted DEAR MR. GACY, on which Peterson (who is also behind Dimension’s upcoming SCANNERS remake, scripted by David S. Goyer) will be joined by Gordon Yang as producer. The movie rolls in Vancouver this month.