Charlie Hunnam Will Play Serial Killer Ed Gein In Season 3 Of Ryan Murphy’s Monster

Charlie Hunnam has taken on some killer roles over the years, from Jax Teller in Sons Of Anarchy, to Percy Fawcett in The Lost City Of Z, to Ray in The Gentlemen — heck, the man even played King Arthur, the titular role, in Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword. Now, after a jaunt to Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon, Hunnam is lining up an actual killer role — a serial killer one, in fact. Per Deadline's reporting, at the premiere of Netflix's Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story on Monday, showrunner Ryan Murphy not only unexpectedly announced that a third season of his true crime anthology series is in the works, but that Hunnam will star in it as infamous murderer Ed Gein.

Originating with 2022's Evan Peters starring Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, prolific TV creator Murphy's show tackles a different real life monster (or, as in Season 2's case, monsters) with each new cycle. In the latest round of episodes, out this Thursday, Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez will play brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who brutally murdered their parents back in 1989, sparking global interest in their twisted case. And in the upcoming Hunnam series, which will return Monster to a singular central figure of focus, Murphy is set to dramatise the horrific crimes of Ed Gein, the skin-flaying slayer whose gruesome deeds — including two murders, grave-robbing, and fashioning furniture and outfits from human remains — inspired Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic chiller The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

We don't know who else is set to star alongside Hunnam in the next series of Monster (presumably to be floridly titled Gein — Monster: The Ed Gein Story) just yet, or when the show will hit our screens, but Murphy is reportedly planning to get production underway as early as next month. And in the meantime, Hunnam will be looking to get *ahem* under the skin of more ne'er-do-wells with a starring role in Prime Video's starry upcoming Ed Brubaker comics adaptation Criminal.