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Producers - What about the families of the victims? That's a story!


Do the producers of this film have a single clue as to the incredible story that is ongoing today as a result of the murders of these women? I doubt it, as they didn't bother to contact the families of the victims. One of these families has made it their life's work to help others locate their missing children.

Tim Miller is a true victim's advocate and a hero to many. I hope anyone who is involved with this movie passes along this article quoting Tim Miller about the film currently in production about the serial killers responsible for the death of his daughter, Laura.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/23043361/detail.html

In his daughter's honor, Miller founded the non-profit organization, Texas Equuasearch (http://texasequusearch.org/), to help parents find their missing children.

"I hate to see somebody make money of my daughter's death. They will make money and movies are entertaining. Let me tell you, there is nothing entertaining about our daughters being murdered," Miller said.

The father of Laura Smither, who was also murdered during that time, said he would have liked to receive a courtesy call.

"I'm a little surprised that the producers didn't try to contact us to tell us what they were up to and to get our input," Bob Smither said.

How callous for these writers and producers to proceed without any contact with the families of the victims. The article isn't clear on how the Fathers learned of the news, but it does seem clear that it was not through the movie makers themselves.

I'm hoping that some genius, honourable PR person approaches the producers and highlights all of the great work TES has done, not just the damn noteriety of the killers. Hopefully they'll even channel a decent share of the profits into TES. Add a blurb at the end of the movie - anything at all to take away this irreverent, disrespectful sting of not even approaching the victims' families with a little courtesy, and perhaps even a little more insight into the story they plan to make big bucks on.



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Simple answer here. If you want a movie made about the victims' families: GO MAKE IT. It's not the responsibility of these particular producers to tell the story YOU want them to tell. And since the families have not been contacted, it's doubtful they know anything about how the movie treats the events. Simply writing the movie off as entertainment and wanting to make money is just making assumptions based on nothing. And they could already have a plan in mind to pay respects to the real victims and their families - how do you know they don't? I hope you don't think these professionals need random people on IMDB boards to teach them how to do their job.

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Cry more.

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because that sounds boring, I didnt even read it all, thats how boring it was.

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^applaud that man , i just read the first line and thought "nobody wants to see that movie"

Kill them all, Let God sort em out

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No, I read the first 2 lines XD

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kcexact- Thank you for the link to the article. When I heard about this movie, I wondered how the victims' families felt about it. Texas Equuasearch is a wonderful organization that aids people around the globe, and I wasn't aware that it was founded by the father of an I-45 victim. I live in Southeast Texas, and like everyone in this area, am aware of the unsolved murders along the I-45 corridor. I'm saddened by the lack of sensitivity afforded to the victims' families by the makers of this film.

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Don't worry about the filmmakers disrespecting the victims' families nobody is going to see this movie anyway.

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For sure. "Re-imagination" of true facts are just laziness. An original thought, Hollywood? No?

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That would be a whole different movie. It looks like this film is about the investigation. This is a formula followed often in films based on true crimes, like "Zodiac". The protagonists are the investigators, not the killers, so the "damn notoriety" isn't really the issue. It takes a lot of tenacity for detectives to stay on a cold case. They're heroes too. While the story of Texas Equuasearch may be interesting, it is a different story and would probably make a better TV movie than feature film.

Interesting that this is the OP's on post. Makes me wonder if someone feels like they got stiffed out of the film rights to their story.

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I cant even believe the "I dont care" attitude of some of the people (NOT ALL< I SAID SOME) on this message board.

Thank you for putting the link up.

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The key words that people missed in the preview is "inspired by the true story" and not based on. There are no actual people portrayed.

The story of a movement to help the families of crime victims would be inspiring, and I'd go see it in a New York minute. But that's not what the film's makers set out to do.

I'm sure others have picked up on this, but it wasn't made in Texas either. Louisiana. Hey, it's south of Philadelphia. Everything down there looks the same, doesn't it?

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It was filmed in Louisiana mostly because there are better rewards and tax deductions offered in Louisiana than Texas now. Texas used to have good incentives but other states have been very competitive. Just watch the trends of where films are shooting as new movies come out. It's very interesting to see.

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Wow, what an ignorant statement,baba. Says more about you than you wanted to reveal.

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That's not very nice.

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