00:00 with that, your new film series, Love and Murder.
00:02 Can you actually talk to me about what was the process
00:06 in putting that together?
00:07 And what was it about the story of Lance Herndon
00:10 that intrigued you to make this?
00:11 - Larissa Bates at BET wanted to do something
00:17 in the passion thriller space, right?
00:18 Finding stories that were salacious
00:22 and that had the element of murder,
00:26 all of the topics that we know resonate, right?
00:29 Love and murder.
00:30 So this one was one of a few stories
00:32 that we had looked at to develop.
00:34 But when you look at Lance's life
00:36 and who he was back at a time where, you know,
00:39 the tech industry was burgeoning.
00:43 And here he was this major player in that space,
00:47 you know, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist,
00:50 but also this really big ladies' man.
00:53 He was a local celebrity,
00:56 but he had his reputation for being a ladies' man
01:01 was as big as his reputation for being a businessman.
01:03 And to have been so brutally murdered,
01:06 it was one of those cases that shocked, you know,
01:09 Atlanta at the time.
01:10 And so in looking at the different stories,
01:13 that would just check so many boxes, right?
01:15 It was like Atlanta, which is an amazing backdrop, right?
01:18 The culture, the city of Atlanta.
01:21 It was, you know, this man who had all of these women,
01:24 any one of them could have done it.
01:26 And even though a lot of the elements of his story
01:29 were easily Google-able, right?
01:31 It still had this element of mystery about it
01:35 because who knows?
01:38 So we wanted to kind of dive into that, play with that,
01:43 walk the line between all of the elements
01:45 that were true to his life,
01:47 but making a compelling and entertaining, you know, project.
01:51 So broke it up into two parts,
01:53 but we're hoping that this is one in a series of many.
01:55 (upbeat music)
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