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Ted Bundy

posted 7 years ago by NotoriousGIB (105)
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I didn't see that one coming, although I can't think of anyone else who would suit the role either. Thoughts?

[–] earl237 (1106) 7 years ago

Mark Harmon played Bundy in a 1986 tv movie called Deliberate Stranger, his performance was really good, not sure if we need another movie about him.

[–] NotoriousGIB (105) 7 years ago

Yeah he was great in that role. Of all the serial killer films I've seen so far that was the one I'd say was the best depiction. I wish they'd do a good one on Dahmer, high hopes for the new one coming out soon.

[–] earl237 (1106) 7 years ago

They've made 4 films about Dahmer so far but I don't think any of them were that memorable. The 1992 tv film "To Catch a Killer" with Brian Dennehy as John Wayne Gacy was good, he's a great actor.

[–] NotoriousGIB (105) 7 years ago

I agree. Jeremy Runner had so much potential, although he's a little shirt but the script was such a let down. I hope the new film will live up to the book.

[–] BourbonKing (5777) 7 years ago

I don't know why Hollywood keeps Ted Bundy's legacy alive so much. Why not make a series about Richard Ramirez while they're at it?

Either way, Efron looks too young and doesn't really resemble Bundy. They can make Tim Daly look younger and cast him imho

[–] NotoriousGIB (105) 7 years ago

I'm all for Tim Daly in anything. He's already been to the electric chair so he has experience.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

He looks nothing like Bundy

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3b/de/4b/3bde4bae8c2469bacfce7cce54dee886.jpg

[–] BourbonKing (5777) 6 years ago

in your opinion

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

To date Ted Bundy has been played by:

Marc Harmon - The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
Michael Reilly Burke - Ted Bundy (2002)
Billy Campbell - Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me (2003)
Corin Nemic - Bundy: An American Icon (2008)
James Marsters - The Capture of the Green River Killer (2008)

The Marc Harmon and Michael Reilly Burke movies were pretty good, the other two not so much. He was only a minor character in the Green River Killer mini series. Not sure we need a fifth film about Ted Bundy but it will be interesting to see if they can bring anything new to the table.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Mark Harmon's The Deliberate Stranger, the movie was done in taste...

My only problem with this 86 movie, the production cashed in Mark Harmon's vanity look as the sexiest man alive of 86 by not changing his appearance like the real Bundy thru out the movie & they didn't show the true dark side of Bundy as much, maybe they were limited how much they could show or say, since this was a tv-movie of the week.

But the movie was accurate as they could possibly be for a tv-movie.

Michael Reilly Burke's Ted Bundy was grotesque in every word, but actually Bundy was far more worse than this in real life,

The film was not accurate especially the ending of the cotton balls, never happen.

Billy Campbell's Ted Bundy, the doesn't even look him.

I'm surprised Ann Rule lovefest for Bundy, got every part of the film inaccurate, did she read her own book before making the film? How can you go from Lake Sammamish murders of the Naslund and Ott incident to a underneath parking garage in a Seattle..

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Pretty sure Marc Harmon had a lot to do with many of the love letters Ted Bundy received the last few years of his life.

I know the Burke movie wasn't accurate (the executioner also wasn't a woman) but I liked his portrayal. There was something really sadistic about it and the character was loathsome, as he should be.

I don't think Ann Rule wrote the screenplay, it was just adapted from her book. Barbara Hershey played Rule and the two look nothing alike. Having really enjoyed the book I was amazed at how shoddy this film was.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

She did not write the screenplay but she was a consultant for the film since this was her book.

I don't believe she knew Bundy personally, she worked with him a few shifts...She wasn't bright either for not pasting together ''the wanted Ted of the lake Sammamish Murders who drives a Volkswagen'' and ''the same Ted who works at the crisis center who also drives a Volkswagen''...For a law enforcer at the time, that says a lot about her...

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

My guess is consultant is just an honorary title but who knows. Either way the movie sucked.

She did know him personally. He called her shortly before being charged with kidnapping, and spoke to her from prison and wrote her long letters from prison as well. And not sure what you mean about not pasting it together. She called a cop friend based solely on the composite sketch having no idea he drove a Volkswagen. The cop checked and called her back saying Ted Bundy had a VW registered to him and she was shocked. Time went by and he wasn't arrested so she assumed the cops had followed up and cleared him. Later he was arrested after moving to Utah and then the cops started piecing it all together.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Well I know a guy who help to write the book ''Ted Bundy: A Visual Timeline'', he has a youtube channel, a lot of stuff of rare stuff about Ted Bundy in Utha...

He had the same opinion as me about Ann Rule & her involvement with Bundy, he thinks that it was a low key relationship more like brief co-workers, she makes it bigger than it is..

She showed more interest in him when he was trial in Florida.

Funny thing, Jerry Thompson told him that he and Bob Keppel thought she was a wack job, she out for one thing in the Bundy case, her fame & money thru out Bundy's crime.

[–] Squiffydoodle (170) 6 years ago

She raised 4 kids through her writing. She and Ted worked a suicide hotline together and that's where she knew him from

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I went to school with 5 kids who butchered another kid...It doesn't mean I hang out with them after school or knew them outside the school.

[–] Squiffydoodle (170) 6 years ago

They only knew each other from work

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Yes...Bundy was a loner who spend most of his night hunting humans or going back to the woods to make love with the corpses. He couldn't hold a job for 2 weeks or could not keep up with his law classes. He was broke most of time & used people & his girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer for money.

I tell true side of Ted Bundy, woman hater, necrophiliac, pedophile, sadistic murderer...Outside of killing, big time loser!

I hope the gang rape back in 1984 in Florida prison, gave him a reality checked how his victims felt before being murdered

[–] Squiffydoodle (170) 6 years ago

It's sad those girls fell for his ruse. I think a man asking a girl to help him with his boat sounds fishy. He was living in my area killing and I was the same age as his victims at the time

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

What is sad now is that Lake Sammamish in Washington, like much Wildwood Inn of Colorado or Chi Omega in Florida are now forever link with Ted Bundy's infamous murders.

I bet all these nuts who loves to revisit Bundy crimes scenes have no ideal who is Janice Ott, Denise Naslund, Caryn Campbell or Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman to begin with..

[–] Squiffydoodle (170) 6 years ago

I, for one, never give him a thought when Lake Sammamish comes up. Although, hearing Chi Omega I would probably make the connection.

In Ann Rule's book, she said that he went after girls who reminded him of his ex girlfriend who dumped him

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Curious, did you actually read Ann Rule's book?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Yes I did way back in the 90's, I preferred Dick Larsen book...

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Okay as well at least your opinion is informed. I thought Ann's book was very good personally.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I get it, she wanted to be the next Truman Capote, like so many authors, there is a lot of make believe to keep the readers interesed in the book.

I don't deny she ever worked with him, but she did not know him personally outside the workplace, that I don't buy it!

[–] Squiffydoodle (170) 6 years ago

Did you read any of her other books like Small Sacrifices?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

No, haven't looked into any of her other books and I most likely won't.

I did want to read Dick Larsen's The Deliberate Stranger but last I checked it's out of print and the only used copies were a bit pricey. I have a little more disposable income these days so maybe I'll look again.

[–] Squiffydoodle (170) 6 years ago

I enjoyed her books, when I read Dead By Sunset, I was surprised to read about a friend's family and that her cousin was the murderer