Zac Efron is Ted Bundy in the new trailer for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Zac Efron is Ted Bundy in  Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.

Joe Berlinger (Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is directing the film, which also stars Lily Collins, John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, and Jim Parsons.

1969. Ted (Zac Efron) is crazy-handsome, smart, charismatic, affectionate. And cautious single mother Liz Kloepfer (Lily Collins) ultimately cannot resist his charms. For her, Ted is a match made in heaven, and she soon falls head over heels in love with the dashing young man. A picture of domestic bliss, the happy couple seems to have it all figured out … until, out of nowhere, their perfect life is shattered. Ted is arrested and charged with a series of increasingly grisly murders. Concern soon turns to paranoia—and, as evidence piles up, Liz is forced to consider that the man with whom she shares her life could actually be a psychopath.

The film is told through the perspective of Elizabeth Kloepfer, Bundy’s longtime girlfriend, who went years denying the accusations against Bundy but ultimately turned him in to the police. Only nearing his execution, when Bundy began talking about his extensive and heinous murders, did Kloepfer, and the rest of the world, learn the true scope of his numerous and grizzly crimes.

John Malkovich will play Edward Cowart, the judge presiding over Bundy’s case.

IN CINEMAS AND ON SKY CINEMA FROM MAY 3.