Hulu’s Hunting Whitey Bulger docuseries will feature never-seen prison letters and narration from Ben Affleck

Hulu is adding another project to it's growing collection of docuseries, and this time it's Hunting Whitey Bulger. One of the most feared and elusive criminals in American histor; a South Boston mob boss, an FBI informant, a fugitive, and ultimately a murder victim behind prison walls, Hulu is set to revisit every chapter of that dark saga in a three-part docuseries.

The series will be based on Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture and Killing of America's Most Wanted Crime Boss, the acclaimed book by investigative journalists Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. And the man lending his voice to the project is Ben Affleck, a Boston native who has spent much of his career circling this very story.

Hunting Whitey Bulger arrives carrying something genuinely rare in the crowded true crime space: primary source material that the public has never had access to before. Sherman and Wedge secured an extraordinary cache of letters that Bulger wrote from behind bars, correspondence that touches on his deteriorating health, his feelings about the criminal associates who testified against him, his years living anonymously on the run in Santa Monica with longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig, and his final days before he was killed at USP Hazelton in West Virginia in October 2018.

All of that will bring light to some fresh evidences and interpretations, particularly as this case has been a highly discussed and debated one since a long time.

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For context, the Hunting Whitey book emerged from years of exhaustive reporting by two journalists who had covered the Bulger world extensively. Sherman embedded himself with the FBI and spent considerable time building sources on all sides of the story. Wedge, a former investigative reporter for the Boston Herald, persuaded Bulger's brother Billy to speak on record for the first time in years. The combination of institutional access and personal testimony gave the book a scope that most true crime accounts can't match, and Hunting Whitey Bulger has every reason to honor that depth.

This story has captured Hollywood's attention repeatedly. In Black Mass, Johnny Depp played his character in 2015 and Martin Scorsese used him as a part of The Departed. Which means this is a story people and Hollywood already cares about and Hulu is bringing a whole new element to it with the inclusion of the exclusive letters.

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