It is the American filmmaker Edward Bass who, according to
Aftenposten, is to make a film about the Norwegian serial
killer. The film "Belle" is reputed to be already in
production, and the filmmaker wants Angelina Jolie in the lead
role.
“Angelina Jolie is the first choice. This is no easy role to
play, remember that she also killed her own children,” Bass
told Aftenposten.
Bass has previously produced films such as “Slingshot” and
“Come Early Morning”.
Made sausages of suitors
Belle Sorensen Gunness, or Brynhild Størseth, was born in
Selbu in 1859 and is one of the most notorious serial killers
in the United States. Norwegian Belle Gunness moved to a farm
outside of Chicago in the United States, where she advertised
for rich Scandinavian suitors.
The men who came to Belle’s farm were killed, then fed to her
pigs and sold as sausages. As the characters in"Sweeney Todd"
were with their pies, Belle was widely known for her delicious
sausages.
She can prove that Belle killed over 70 people, both suitors,
Director Anne Berit Vestby spent five years trying to make the
documentary film "Only Belle - a serial killer from Selbu"
about the charming, icy fortune hunter.
“She treated men as pigs. She poisoned them in the evening,
and then she beat them in the head while the children slept,”
says Vestby to Absolute Entertainment TV 2
Belle then took the men down into the basement, where there
was a secret slaughterhouse.
After 27 years of bestial murder, Belle disappeared
mysteriously in 1908. Over 40 bodies were found buried on her
farm.
Director Anne Berit Vestby spent five years trying to make the
documentary film "Only Belle - a serial killer from Selbu"
about the charming, icy fortune hunter.
“She treated men as pigs. She poisoned them in the evening,
and then she beat them in the head while the children slept,”
says Vestby to Absolute Entertainment TV 2
Belle then took the men down into the basement, where there
was a secret slaughterhouse.
After 27 years of bestial murder, Belle disappeared
mysteriously in 1908. Over 40 bodies were found buried on her
farm.
