AmberBaby wrote:
...the movie was based on Reichert's book. There's nothing in his book? So why then have Nat at the end have her daughter with her who she named Helen??
According to the film's writer on his Web site,
johnpielmeier.com, the script for
The Capture of the Green River Killer is entirely the work of the writer/actor himself:
THE STORY:
This is the story of Detective Dave Reichert’s near-twenty-year search for the notorious Green River Killer, narrated by one of the victims looking back on her troubled life and death and trying to make some sense of it all.
THE BACKSTORY:
Stan Brooks, the producer I’ve worked with more often than with any other and who has been so supportive of me as a writer, sold this piece in about two seconds to ABC. I flew to Seattle and spent some time with Dave Reichert, and wrote the script as an original, doing my own research.
(Later, when it was finally produced, it received a “based on” credit; Dave was writing a book at the time I first met with him, and by the time the movie was green-lighted his book had been published and hence the final credit.) ABC soon decided it was no longer in the MOW business, and the project went into limbo-land. A few years later Stan’s office spoke to Lifetime, which had a division devoted to doing low-budget movies. They’d never done a miniseries in that venue, but were up for a try. And so the piece was made on an astoundingly low budget and shot in thirty days. Stan called in some favors and gathered a collection of incredibly talented actors and, under Norma Bailey’s helm as director, ended up with a movie that I am especially proud of.
Page found here:
www.johnpielmeier.com/common/news/reports/detail.cfm?QID=6418&clie ntID=11082&classification=report&topicID=0
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