January 28 is an important day for anyone with a remote interest in the notorious Black Dahlia murder. TNT is premiering ‘I am the Night’ helmed by Patty Jenkins on the day, and it will narrate the story of the late Fauna Hodel, who, having been given up for adoption, tracks down her biological family, only to find out that her grandfather is the infamous George Hodel, widely accepted as the Black Dahlia murderer.
While ‘I am the Night’ narrates the exceptional story of the Hodel family, there is so much more to be told about George and how his actions impacted generations to come. “That is why Patty knew she could never tell mom’s story in a two-hour movie feature. That’s why she had to take it to television,” Fauna’s daughters Yvette Gentile and Rasha Pecoraro tell MEAWW.
As it turns out, even the eight-episode TNT series could not cover it all, which is when TNT, in coordination with filmmaker Zak Levitt, decided to work on the companion podcast to ‘I am the Night’ called…
