Director Charlie Shackleton hoped to make his own true-crime movie. When he was denied the rights, he went forward anyway, ...

Director Charlie Shackleton thought he could have his cake and eat it too. For years Shackleton had been considering the idea ...

“Zodiac Killer Project,” the fascinating feature documentary from director Charlie Shackleton, is nothing like what it sounds. For one thing, it’s not really about the infamous Zodiac Killer — though ...

How a director’s dream true crime project accidentally became the most entertaining and insightful media criticism of 2025.

Originally intended as an adaptation of a book about the Zodiac Killer before being denied the rights, Charlie Shackleton’s impressive documentary instead explores the true crime film that never was.

That’s the question a Peacock documentary series premiering Tuesday asks its viewers. The two-part “Myth of the Zodiac Killer” hypothesizes that the series of killings that gripped the San Francisco ...

British filmmaker Charlie Shackleton's "Zodiac Killer Project" spoofs true crime tropes but drags on for 92 dull minutes, proving some films shouldn't be made.

British director Charlie Shackleton was in Vallejo, California, where at least two of the murders committed by the Zodiac killer took place, when he discovered that a documentary that he planned to ...

"Zodiac Killer Project" is a documentary about a documentary that never got to be made. Charlie Shackleton tried to buy the rights to a memoir that explored a theory about who might have murdered five ...