Zac Efron playing “vile” real-life serial killer

Former Disney child star Zac Efron is going very, very dark for his next role.

The hunk best known for flexing his muscles in comedies like Bad Neighbours 2 and Baywatch has been cast as notorious real-life serial killer Ted Bundy in an upcoming biopic, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Bundy was executed in 1989 after confessing to carrying out more than 30 murders over the course of at least four years in the mid-to-late 1970s.

(Ted Bundy)

The upcoming movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile will be told through the eyes of Bundy’s wife Carole Ann Boone, who ultimately turned the killer in to police.

This thriller will be directed by Academy Award and Primetime Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster).