A new documentary on the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione is in the works from the Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney.
Per Variety, the documentary will be produced by Anonymous Content and Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions and serves as the first project about the December 4th murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.
Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, was apprehended for the murder in a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania five days after the incident; he was found with a gun and silencer, fake IDs, and a three-page “manifesto” centering on the American healthcare system. Prior to his arrest, he had reportedly suffered from back pain and received surgery for it; sources close to Mangione told CBS that he held resentment towards United Health Care and health insurance companies in general.
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The film, which is yet to be titled, will examine “how killers are created, what this killing says about our society and the values we place on who lives and who dies.” Mangione has yet to be indicted for the murder, but the killing has opened up significant questions about the nature of the United States’ health industry — where companies like UnitedHealthcare are known for rejecting about twice as many claims as the industry average — with many lending support to Mangione on social media.
The UnitedHealthcare CEO murder isn’t the only ideologically-motivated incident Alex Gibney has been following; he’s currently in production on a documentary based on Salman Rushdie’s memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, which recounts a 2022 stabbing attack on the author. Furthermore, Gibney is reportedly working on a project about Elon Musk.
In lighter news, Gibney directed a two-part documentary on Paul Simon that arrived this year, titled In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.
