The upcoming Ted Bundy biopic titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile just got a new cast addition. It was reported by Deadline that frontman of thrash metal legends Metallica, James Hetfield, is on board to play the role of Officer Bob Hayward in the movie about one of America’s most notorious serial killers. Bob Hayward was “Utah highway patrol veteran who was the first law enforcement officer to arrest Bundy in 1975 after pulling the killer over and discovering burglary tools in his car, but wisely suspecting much worse.”
The biopic already has Zac Efron portraying Ted Bundy, while the rest of the cast includes Lily Collins, John Malkovich, Jim Parsons, Haley Joel Osment, Angela Sarafyan, Jeffrey Donovan, Terry Kinney, Kaya Scodelario, and Dylan Baker.
The movie will be directed by Joe Berlinger, who already worked with Hetfield on the documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and wrote a book about his time with the band titled Metallica: This Monster Lives.
“Having spent hundreds of hours behind the scenes with James and the rest of Metallica, I have experienced his charisma and powerful presence close up,” – said director Joe Berlinger in a statement. “It seemed only natural that he would bring that same power and magnetism to a dramatic role, so when he agreed to my pitch that he be in the movie, I was thrilled.”
The production for the Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile started in January 2018, but the release date for the movie has not been revealed yet. Unlike some previous movies about Ted Bundy, the story of this one will be shown from the perspective of his girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer (played by Lilly Collins).
