Metallica’s James Hetfield’s Acting Debut has Premiered at Sundance

On January 25th, The official teaser trailer for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile starring Metallica frontman James Hetfield was released. The film is based on true events, and eerily follows the life of infamous American serial killer Ted Bundy, played by Zac Efron. Hetfield plays the role as patrol officer Bob Hayward and is shown several times in the trailer.

The director of the film, Joel Berlinger, also directed a documentary about the band Some Kind of Monster back in 2004. In a recent interview, Berlinger said “Having spent hundreds of hours behind the scenes with James and the rest of Metallica, I have experienced his charisma and powerful presence close up,”.

There is no official release date yet, however the film did premier at Sundance Music Festival last weekend. Until then, Metallica is still on tour. See the available tour dates here.

Watch the chilling trailer here.

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