One of the most horrific events in the history of our nation was the Jonestown Massacre, in which 900 people died in one of the largest mass murder-suicides on record.
Anne Sewitsky (Happy, Happy) is set to direct White Night, a thriller about one of the most infamous cult stories of all time, reports Deadline.
Chloë Grace Moretz (The Amityville Horror, Let Me In, Suspiria) is playing Layton in the pic, with the story recounting how she rose through the ranks of the People’s Temple cult, eventually entering the inner circle of Christian Socialist preacher Jim Jones, played by The Dark Knight and Inception‘s Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
White Night is based on Deborah Layton’s memoir Seductive Poison. William Wheeler (The Ghost in the Shell) penned the adaptation.
Jones established “Jonestown” in 1974 in Guyana as an extension of his San Francisco-based cult, recounts the site. It was there where, on November 18, 1978, more than 900 people died in one of the largest mass murder-suicides on record.
Ti West’s 2013 The Sacrament was also inspired by the Jonestown Massacre.
Filming will begin this spring.
WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY ON THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE:
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