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SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary The harrowing search for John Wilkes Booth is finally over in Manhunt. Partially based on James L. Swanson's book of the same name, the Apple TV+ miniseries explores the 12-day hunt for Booth following his infamous assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
Beletsky Wanted To Avoid Telling Booth's Story In A Humanizing Way Throughout Manhunt's run, audiences have spent plenty of time with Booth in his effort to escape to the South while also learning more about his motivations and past.
In this effort to ensure he stayed the villainous figure history remembers, Beletsky also made sure to include some moments in which Booth found himself knocked down a peg even by those he thought would side with him.
So, that was my thinking behind it. And I liked the idea that his reception was just totally different than it was in his mind. I have a friend who texts me every week, and he's like, "I can't wait to see these guys get it." Monica Beletsky: I'm not sure I would approach it that way, with a number. I think that the project here is reimagining the story as a true-crime story. So, I think that taking it literally is sort of a false premise. And I think that wherever possible, where it suited dramatization — we were painstaking in our research, but I think the project of making Stanton more active and more of a detective type of role takes a leap of imagination.
So, there's an interesting sort of toss-and-turn there where Herold says, "Please say I didn't do anything," and you're not sure what Booth is gonna say. And then, Booth takes credit for it, and he's like, "Yeah, he didn't do any of it. It was all me." Which is so fitting in the way we've been portraying his character. So it kind of works for Herold, and for him, in that moment.
So, I had fun showing someone who has been our moral compass, the whole show in Stanton, that he wants this conviction so badly where his moral gray area starts to arise in those last two episodes. And part of it is the trial, and I believe — I don't know the rules of a military tribunal off the top of my head, but I remember looking at it, there's about a 1000-page trial transcript that I relied on for writing that part. And, yeah, none of them were able to speak.
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