Yep, there's already a Luigi Mangione documentary in the works from an Oscar-winning director

It's the news story no one can stop talking about - and now it's coming soon to a screen near you.

Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director behind documentaries like Taxi to the Dark Side, Going Clear, and Totally Under Control, announced that he's developing a project around the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and national manhunt that resulted in the arrest of the alleged prime suspect, Luigi Mangione.

Gibney's Jigsaw Productions and Anonymous Content are teaming up for the project, which is described as an investigation into "the crime's seemingly meticulous execution to the alleged killer's manifesto and his Ivy League background to the public's unapologetic apathy towards the victim, the investigative deep dive will ask how killers are created, what this killing says about our society and the values we place on who lives and who dies."

Thompson was named CEO of the healthcare services and insurance giant in 2021. He was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan in the early hours of Dec. 4 by a masked assailant, who fled on bicycle. Five days later, police in Altoona, Pennsylvania responded to reports of a McDonald's customer allegedly matching the profile of the suspect at large.

Luigi Nicholas Mangione, a 26 year old originally hailing from Maryland, was taken into custody and arraigned on Dec. 9 on unrelated gun charges. He is currently being held at a State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon, PA before he faces second-degree murder charges in New York in the Thompson case.

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Information supplying possible motives for Mangione have surfaced in the days since the revelation of the identity of the alleged killer. The University of Pennsylvania graduate was allegedly found with a ghost gun, or an unserialized and untraceable firearm that is often assembled by hand. Law enforcement also claims that Mangione was also in possession of a handwritten manifesto at the time of his apprehension, which reads in part, "I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming."

Though Mangione was not a UnitedHealthcare customer, the insurer has the highest claim denial rate in the country, rejecting 32% of all filed claims - double the industry average of 16%.

Gibney meanwhile has asserted himself as one of the foremost chroniclers of American institutional corruption. In the last five years, he has directed documentaries on Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian man tortured by the CIA at Guantanamo Bay (The Forever Prisoner), and disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley).

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His 2007 documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, which also examined the U.S.'s torture program during the war in Afghanistan, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

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Gibney produced several documentary series and features this year through his Jigsaw Productions, including God Save Texas, which was co-directed by Richard Linklater, a look at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called The Bibi Files, and a docuseries on David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, which he also directed.

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