Christina Ricci will be slipping into Lizzie Borden’s shoes once again for a planned limited series on Lifetime. Ricci, who starred as murder suspect Borden in the 2014 made-for-TV movie Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, will be reprising the role in Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles. Clea DuVall will also be back playing Lizzie’s sister, Emma.
The series will consist of six one-hour episodes set to air in 2015. Sons of Anarchy‘s Stephen Kay will direct the first two episodes.
“For more than a century, the world has been captivated by the legend of Lizzie Borden. But no one has captured her enigmatic menace as well as Christina Ricci,” said Rob Sharenow, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Lifetime. “This series will take viewers further down Lizzie Borden’s dark path, revealing what many people suspected about her mysterious life.”
The Plot:
Lizzie Borden: The Fall River Chronicles delivers an intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie’s life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892, when the exonerated figure lives a life awash in newfound celebrity. But when numerous people close to Lizzie – ranging from her half-brother to Broadway luminaries and the head of the criminal underworld — start to mysteriously die under brutal and strange circumstances, legendary Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo (Cole Hauser) becomes determined to prove her involvement in their ultimate demise.
Emmy nominee John Heard will portray William Almy, the business partner of Lizzie’s murdered father, Andrew, while Lizzie’s half-brother William will be played by Andrew Howard (Hatfields & McCoys).
