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Please tell me you're joking about the Wichita film. It makes me ill just thinking about that crime.... I can't believe they would make a real motion picture about it since the bad guys are black. If anyone did make a film it would be such cruelty towards the families of the victims who certainly have suffered enough.

Nope. I saw it mentioned in the May 2006 issue of Rou Morgue magazine, page 9. (Rue Morgue is a glossy fullcolor $7.95 an issue magazine devoted to horror in all medias). I couldn't find a link on their (totally awful and unweildy) online site, but I did type out by hand the requisite info for another thread a few days ago (thread is called Honor in Films , or just click on my name and scroll down). Here is what I typed on that thread:

Here's a movie for us all to avoid, when it comes out:

They're turning the Wichita Horror into entertainment-a film. The director of Saw and Saw II is making it.

From Rue Morgue magazine, page 9, May 2006 issue:

"Wichita is going to push the limits of what people can handle more than any other film before it,"Bousman stated confidently...Set during the holiday season, the story concerns a singular event which sets in motion the eventual detruction of eight separate people. ...Boseman...notes that it's based on real events.

I like the 'eight separate people', with the two vicious murderers being lumped in with the victims as equally worthy of sympathy.

Oh, and a little creative googling brought up an article on the proposed cinematic atrocity at RottenTomatoes.com As I mentioned on the 'honor in recent movies' thread : A film based on a true crime isn't necessarily an abomination.Citizen X was a fine film. But if the crimes are treated as titillating or "sexy", and if the murderers are treated as if THAY are the true victims-and it sounds like that's going to be the case here, judging from Bousman's words-then that is abominable.