Amazon sews up Bobbitt doc series

Amazon Prime Video has ordered a documentary series about notorious couple the Bobbitts from Get Out director Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment.

Four-parter Lorena investigates the case of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt, who made headlines 25 years ago when she cut off her husband’s penis while he was asleep. It was subsequently re-attached by surgeons.

Directed by Joshua Rofé (Lost for Life), the documentary aims to challenge the long-held narrative that surrounded the event.

The Prime original series is coproduced by Monkeypaw, Sonar and Number 19. Peele and Win Rosenfeld exec produce for Monkeypaw, alongside Jenna Santoianni and Tom Lesinski for Sonar and Rofé and Steven J Berger for Number 19.

Prime members will be able to stream the series exclusively via the Amazon Prime Video app for TVs, connected devices, mobile and online.

“Lorena reframes Lorena Bobbitt’s story around issues of sexism and domestic abuse and offers audiences a new view into how America got her story wrong and maybe continues to get it wrong,” said Heather Schuster, head of unscripted at Amazon originals.