Young actress Lindsay Lohan will start work on her first
movie since going through a lengthy rehab stay last summer: a film about crazed
murderer Charles Manson.
Lindsay Lohan will portray one of the female cult followers
that gravitated around Charles Manson at the time when he was young, apparently
charming to certain people and capable of convincing his followers to do things
for him.
E! Online reports Lohan will portray Nancy Pitman, a woman
who grew up in a wealthy household in
Pitman was home with Manson on the night he sent several of
his followers to the former home of ex-business associate Terry Melcher, where
they murdered actress Sharon Tate and four other persons.
The film, titled “Manson Girls,” is being produced by Brad
Wyman of Junction Films, who confirmed Lohan’s casting to E! News by saying, “Yes,
I am doing it with Lindsay.”
Interestingly enough, the 21-year-old seems to be forming a bit
of a pattern with her recent career choices. Last year, she filmed “Chapter 27”
with Jared Leto, under the direction of J. P. Schaefer. Leto portrays Mark
David Chapman, the man who murdered John Lennon, while Lohan plays Jude, a
friend of Chapman’s.
“Chapter 27” opens in limited release this weekend.
The subject of Lohan’s previous film, “I Know Who Killed Me,”
was similarly murderous, with the young actress playing a double role in a
would-be psychological thriller. The movie was torn apart by critics and earned
an impressive number of Razzie Awards this year.
Before Lohan starts work on “Manson Girls,” she first teams up with Jack Black and David Arquette for the quirky comedy “Ye Olde Times.” The film is due out in 2009.