Celebrity Sex Cult Movie is in the Works
by EG
The sex cult NXIVM is a little more seedy than Fifty Shades of Grey, but Lifetim is hoping that the story is intriguing to its viewers. The cable network is working on a fictionalized version of the celebrity scandal for a debut in the fall. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
A movie based on the twisted upstate sex cult Nxivm, where women were starved and branded like cattle, is set to premiere this fall on the Lifetime channel, reps said Monday.
The made-for-TV flick, “NXIVM Cult: A Mother’s Nightmare,” centers on the true story of former “Dynasty” star Catherine Oxenberg, whose daughter, India, became a sex slave for cult leader Keith Raniere, the Lifetime channel announced in a press release.
In the movie, actress Andrea Roth of “Rescue Me” will play the role of Catherine Oxenberg, and Jasper Polish of the “Devil’s Whisper” will portray India, according to Lifetime, which is producing the flick with Sony Pictures Television.
Actor Peter Facinelli of “Twilight” will play Raniere and Sara Fletcher of “Secret Girlfriend” will portray Raniere right-hand Allison Mack, of “Smallville” fame.
“When Catherine learns about a leadership seminar from a new organization called Nxivm she decides to take her 20-year-old daughter India to the professional development meeting. Led by the extremely enigmatic Keith Raniere, Catherine can’t help but shake the feeling there’s more than meets the eye with the self-help organization,” Lifetime reps said in a description of the movie.
“Despite Catherine’s best efforts, India is drawn deeper into the cult, eventually joining a secret sorority of female members who are branded with the cult leader’s initials, ordered to maintain a restricted diet and forced to recruit other women as sex slaves…[It] tells the story of a mother who will stop at nothing to get her daughter back.”
The movie announcement comes less than two weeks after Raniere was found guilty on all counts for running the cult.
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