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(NewsNation) — The household of Kaylee Goncalves, 1 of 4 University of Idaho students murdered by Bryan Kohberger successful 2022, says they are shocked to larn Lifetime is producing a movie astir the murders.
“It's shocking to cognize that idiosyncratic feels assured that they tin conscionable archer your communicative astir your child,” Steve Goncalves, Kaylee’s father, told “Banfield.”
Deadline reports accumulation of the movie is acceptable to statesman successful October, with Miles Merry formed to play Kohberger. The Goncalves household says Lifetime has not contacted them to enactment successful the production.
“They’re not a headline, they're not a Lifetime movie,” Alivea Goncalves, Kaylee’s sister, said. “While I would person appreciated them reaching retired for what that stands for, I wouldn't person taken portion successful thing that is simply a scripted, fictional, melodramatic reenactment of our and my sister's existent life.”
Lifetime has antecedently produced movies based connected different real-life crimes, including the Amanda Knox and Menendez brothers’ cases. Alivea said that portion her household does not hold with the production, they are uncertain if they volition question ineligible action.
“We are not, you know, precise sue-happy people. And the payment of that, I don't truly know, due to the fact that it's astir like, whack a mole, similar you get 1 down, and, you know, 4 others popular up,” she said.
