Actor Elizabeth Olsen has been roped in to play the lead role in streaming platform HBO Max’s limited series Love and Death. According to Variety, the show
will be written by David E Kelley, who also serves as executive producer along with Hollywood star Nicole Kidman.
Lesli Linka Glatter is attached to direct the show, which is based on the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery, who killed her friend, Betty Gore, with an axe in 1980. It is inspired by the book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs and a collection of articles from Texas Monthly (Love & Death In Silicon Prairie, Part I & II). Olsen will essay the role of Montgomery.
