Paramount+ series Happy Face, with Dennis Quaid as the real-life serial killer who got his name from drawing smiley faces on his letters taunting the media and authorities, starts filming in Vancouver.
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Happy Face (Dennis Quaid) is an incarcerated serial killer who is Melissa’ (Annaleigh Ashford)’s once-beloved father. After decades of no contact, he finally finds a way to force himself back into his daughter’s life.
In a race against the clock, Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. Throughout, she discovers the impact her father had on his victims’ families and must face a reckoning of her own identity.
James Wolk plays Melissa’s husband — a ““bank manager by day, marathon-trainer by night” who knows that his wife’s father is Dennis Quaid’s Happy Face serial killer but thought they’d left the trauma behind them. Then he learns that Melissa is being manipulated again by the conniving sociopath, according to Deadline: Hollywood.
The series comes from Robert and Michelle King’s King-Sized Productions and is inspired by Melissa Moore’s real life story, her autobiography Shattered Silence and the Happy Face podcast.
Happy Face
Episodes: 8.
Filming dates: March 19 2024 – June 19 2024
Showrunner: Jennifer Cacicio
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Annaleigh Ashford, James Wolk.
Producers: Melissa Jesperson-Moore, King-Sized Productions (Robert King, Michelle King), CBS Productions.