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NBC Has a TV series, Law & Order: Special Victims, and now Lifetime Cable network will be making a TV series based on the NXIVM case, tentatively titled NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Nightmare, which tells the true story of Catherine Oxenberg's rescue of her daughter India from a "dangerous sex cult."
Andrea Roth, who starred in "Line of Fire," will play Catherine. Peter Facinelli, who has starred in "Twilight" and "The Nurse Is Home," will play Keith Lanier, Jasper Polish will play Catherine's daughter Indya, and Sara Fletcher will play NXIVM partner Alison Mack.
Scheduled to premiere in the fall of 2019, the series tells the story of what happened after Catherine took her daughter to an NXIVM workshop.
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Led by the extremely mysterious Keith Lanier, Catherine could never escape the feeling that encountering this self-help organization was no simple matter. Despite Catherine's best efforts, India became more and more deeply involved in the cult and eventually joined its women's secret fraternity. They were branded with the initials of cult leaders, required to observe strict dietary rules, and forced to recruit other women as sex slaves. Lifetime said in a press release, "'NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Nightmare' tells the story of a mother who takes back her daughter at all costs, exposing the deadly allure of Alison and Keith and the mental and physical abuse suffered by India.".
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Oaksenberg serves as executive producer alongside Judith Verno, Yfat Reiss Gendell and Richie Kern. Lisa Robinson is the director, and the screenwriter is Adam Maze, who won the Emmy Award for Best Screenplay.
In April 2018, it was revealed that they were making a television about the so-called sex slavery circle. In June 2019, Lanier was convicted of sex trafficking and extortion. Mike pleaded guilty to extortion.
The NXIVM film is just one in a series of films that have been taken from the headlines, with others including Kidnapping: The Story of Mary Stauffer, starring Alyson Hannigan, and Trapped: The Story of Alex Cooper, starring Addison Holley, Ian Lake, and Sarah Booth.