Golden Globe award nominee Edward Bass has taken on a new project deemed “Belle.” This is going to be a darker horror, mystery type of film, but Bass takes it on not because he is fascinated with the genre, but quite taken with the character.
Producer Edward Bass is known for his widely diversified and complex body of work. He has been a part of the entertainment industry from the early days and once mingled with some of the greats like Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, Elvis Presley and Harry Belafonte when he was taken backstage on trips to Las Vegas and New York. During his teen years, his home was often full of actors and entertainers putting on impromptu shows. His early career took on much of a management role and he managed a wide range of talent including Ballet Dancers and even famous boxers like Julio Caesar Chavez, whom he helped garner the fame this middle weight champion was known for.
Now a famous producer Bass has decided to take on the writing, directing and producing of his new pet project “Belle.” He first learned of the project from a friend who purchased the old Porte Indiana property where Anabelle Gunness is said to have committed her passion crimes. Gunness is one of the more prominent serial killers of the early 20th century. She is said to have lured, married and killed many a wealthy man at her La Porte Indiana farm. Born Norwegian but raised in the USA, she is said to have been quite a large woman, one fully capable of overturning a man.
Her crimes began to be noticed by authorities when men she knew suddenly started disappearing mysteriously. Apparently, she murdered all of her husbands, and many beaus who would come to visit her leaving her their fat wallets and their life. She is said to have killed more than 40 people.
To attract her victims she place matrimonial ads in newspapers. She would write suitors and then lure them to her farm, where she killed them. She also killed her step children and hid their disappearance by saying they were off at boarding school. To Bass and most Americans it is a fascinating storyone where a woman seeks love, but never truly finds it, or when she does finds that she truly doesnt want it. “It is a fascinating project.” “Not so much of who-done-it” but more of a “Why-done-it,” says Bass.