A Gabby Petito Movie Is In The Works

Gabby Petito is gone, but will never be forgotten.

The 22-year-old’s life will be chronicled in a new movie for Lifetime.

More specifically, her life with Brian Laundrie before, during and after her tragic murder will be chronicled in the new TV-movie.

“The Gabby Petito” story (working title) was given the green light by Lifetime Network.

The movie will be directed by Emmy-Award winning actress Thora Birch, who is known for her roles in “The Walking Dead” and “American Beauty.” Birch will also star in the movie.

“The Gabby Petito” story is part of Lifetime’s public affairs initiative called “Stop Violence Against Women.”

September 11, 2022 marks the one-year anniversary of Gabby’s reported disappearance.

The movie will explore Gabby and Brian’s complicated relationship and what may have gone wrong during their cross-country trip that resulted in Gabby’s tragic murder.

Filming will begin this summer in Utah and is set to premiere later this year.

Last summer and into early fall, Gabby and her former fiancé set off from the east coast for a cross-country road trip to visit the US’s National Parks.

They packed up their life in FL. and loaded it into her conversion van which she dubbed “vanlife.” Their travels were chronicled on her YouTube channel until her social media accounts came to an abrupt publishing halt.

Brian returned to Florida from Wyoming without Gabby around late August.

Gabby had basically kept in touch with her mother, Nichole Schmidt, on the daily, if not every other day.

Her communication became scarce and this raised flags in her mother’s head.

On September 11, 2021, Schmidt filed a missing person report.

Sadly, her parents worst nightmare was about to come true.

On September 19, Gabby’s body was discovered in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. FBI and law enforcement officials suspect she was murdered in August.

A wild manhunt for Brian began soon after Gabby was reported missing and lasted weeks.

The 23-year-old would go on to kill himself by means of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He admitted to killing his fiancée in a notebook entry before his death.

Her official cause of death was “blunt force injuries to the head and neck, with manual strangulation.”

Gabby’s parents, Schmidt and Joseph Petito, have filed a lawsuit against Brian’s parents, Chris and Roberta Laundrie.

The lawsuit claims Chris and Roberta had knowledge of where Gabby’s body was buried after Brian returned home solo. It also claims the Laundries knew Brian had killed their daughter.

The lawsuit has been amended since it was originally filed in March.

The amended suit claims Chris and Roberta went on vacation with Brian while knowing he had murdered Gabby, and they refused to disclose the location of her remains.

The lawsuit continues to claim the North Port, Florida residents knew all along Brian murdered his 22-year-old girlfriend and they looked into ways to help him flee the country.

One change to the lawsuit centers around the Laundrie’s September trip to Fort DeSoto.

The amended lawsuit now claims the family went on vacation not only aware Brian had murdered Gabby, but also with the knowledge of where Petito’s body was located.

While Gabrielle Petito’s family was suffering, the Laundrie family went on vacation to Fort DeSoto Park on September 6-7, 2021. They went on vacation knowing that Laundrie had murdered Gabrielle Petito, it is believed that they knew where her body was located, and further knew that Gabrielle Petito’s parents were attempting to locate her,” the suit says.

Another section of the amended lawsuit focused on the Laundries’ contact with law enforcement.

“Law enforcement” has been taken out and changed to read, “Despite the fact that Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt implored Christopher Laundrie and Roberta Laundrie to tell them if their daughter was alive, and if she was not, where her remains were located, Christopher Laundrie and Roberta Laundrie refused to respond to either Joseph Petito or Nichole Schmidt or law enforcement.”

The Laundrie’s lawyer, Steven Bertolino, called the lawsuit “baseless” and “frivolous.”