"Scandal" actor Scott Foley and "Heartbeat" actor Dave Annable have signed on to star in a true-crime TV movie "Fatal Vision." It seems that Foley's got a killer new role.
According to Variety, Foley will play the title character Jeffrey MacDonald who is an Army captain convicted of brutally murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters in the middle of the night in "Fatal Vision." Annable will play the bestselling author Joe McGinniss who asked by MacDonald to write a book about his personal nightmare as he was falsely accused and was about to go on trial.
The TV movie "Fatal Vision" is based on McGinniss' nonfiction bestseller of the same name, TV Line reported. It chronicles the 1970 infamous MacDonald murders of pregnant Colette MacDonald and her daughters, Kimberly and Kirsten. It will be told through the eyes of McGinniss.
The story of "Fatal Vision" begins about an innocent man being railroaded by a flawed legal system, then taking viewers through a twisted psychological thriller that exposes a sinister man, behind a charming and heroic façade. In real life, the MacDonald case is the longest-running criminal case in the U.S. history.
In the plot of "Fatal Vision," Jeffrey was also wounded in what he later told investigators was a ritualistic, Manson Family-style home invasion. Despite his claims of innocence, he was sentenced to consecutive life sentences in prison years later for killing his entire family.
The MacDonald-centric project "Fatal Vision" is the first TV film from a five-part true crime movie series greenlit by Investigation Discovery. All of which hail from Lincoln Square Productions for Investigation Discovery.
"Fatal Vision" is also the second TV movie treatment of the material. The first one was a 1984 miniseries of the same name starring "Veep" actor Gary Cole and "The Streets of San Francisco" actor Karl Malden, who won an Emmy for his performance as MacDonald's father-in-law.
Denis O'Neill wrote "Fatal Vision" with "The Pact" director Nicholas McCarthy being helmed on it. The executive producers are Christine Connor, Linda Berman, and ID's Angela Bromstad. Berman will also produce alongside Lincoln Square Productions and ABC Studios.
The production of "Fatal Vision" has already begun last month and will premiere in 2017, though no premiere date has been set.
Watch the video of Scott Foley talking about "Fatal Vision," "Scandal," and "Felicity":
