Sophia Scorziello editor Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for “The Crowded Room,” a psychological thriller series starring Tom Holland, Amanda Seyfried and Emmy Rossum.
Based on the crimes of Billy Milligan, the show was created by Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the 2001 film “A Beautiful Mind,” and is inspired by Daniel Keyes’s 1981 non-fiction novel, “The Minds of Billy Milligan.” Set in the heat of Manhattan in the summer of 1979, “The Crowded Room” follows the arrest of Danny Sullivan (Holland) for his involvement in a shooting at Rockefeller Center.
Danny works with investigator Rya Goodwin (Seyfried), who leads him to recall the past that drove him to commit his crimes. Holland’s character is said to be loosely based on Milligan, who in 1979 was arrested for the rape of three women on the Ohio State campus.
Before his trial, psychologists diagnosed Milligan with dissociative identity disorder, which led his defense to plead insanity on the account that Milligan’s alternate personalities drove him to commit said crimes.
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