#WomanoftheHour screenwriter Ian McDonald says an important part of crafting the script was narrowing down which victim interactions he wanted to portray, given that Rodney Alcala may have killed up to 130 people.
"That was the thing that changed the most throughout developing this...It was less about ‘Which victim do we want to write about in terms of the person?’ and more that how you open and close a movie says so much about the film’s intentions thematically, and has a massive dramatic impact. You can do it chronologically, where you start with his earliest murder, and then move to his most recent. You can do it thematically and find specific events that you feel build upon each other in a revealing way, or based around character. How does each crime reveal something new about the killer? It was a cross between those last two — that’s kind of where we landed."
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