The story of one of New Jersey’s most prolific serial killers - dubbed the “Angel of Death” - could be featured in a Netflix film that chronicles his career as a nurse who murdered patients with lethal injections at multiple hospitals before he was caught, reports say.

According to Deadline.com, Netflix is preparing to pay $25 million for the rights to a movie adaptation of Charles Graeber’s “The Good Nurse,” a non-fiction book about Charles Cullen, now 60, a night nurse who pleaded guilty during multiple hearings in 2004 and 2005 to killing 29 people in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The film follows Cullen’s murderous path across two states and the investigation to take him down, Deadline reported. The movie is set to star British actor Eddie Redmayne as Cullen and American actor Jessica Chastain as a nurse who helped bring Cullen to justice, Deadline reported. Danish director-screenwriter Tobias Lindholm is set to direct.

No release date for the film has yet been announced, the report says.

The upcoming film will likely be a polished and stylized account of one of the darkest chapters in New Jersey crime history, when Cullen, a West Orange native, admitted to killing 29 people in 10 medical facilities across two states.

Over his 16-year-career as a registered nurse, Cullen killed as many as 40 people in hospitals in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania with lethal injections, according to an interview between Cullen and Somerset County detectives.

Cullen was arrested in December 2003 after killing a patient at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. It was the end of a clandestine killing spree that left families grieving and mourning, only to find out years later their loved ones were murdered.

Charles Cullen listens to questions from during a court hearing in Hunterdon County in 2005. Express-Times

After Cullen admitted to killing as many as 40 people, a massive investigation was launched to identify his victims, many of whom he couldn’t remember. As part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, Cullen confessed to killing 29 people, 22 in New Jersey and seven in Pennsylvania.

At his 2006 sentencing, Cullen faced the families of many of his victims. One by one, each person remembered those they’d lost and asked for answers from the man who killed them. They called Cullen “evil,” a “monster” and a “demon from the lowest depths of hell."

Cullen, who had refused to make any statements, even after additional prompting from the sentencing judge, said nothing, barely acknowledging the people who mourned his victims.

Cullen is serving 11 consecutive life sentences in New Jersey State Prison for the New Jersey murders. He faces another six life sentences for the murders in Pennsylvania. His earliest possible parole date from state custody in New Jersey is June 10, 2388, according to the Department of Corrections.

Cullen appeared on screen in 2013, when he conducted his first television interview for 60 Minutes. During the interview, Cullen said he felt his murders were mercy killings.

“I thought that people weren’t suffering anymore," said Cullen. "So in a sense, I thought I was helping.”

The planned Netflix movie about Cullen joins a string of films that center on New Jersey murderers and killers. In 2012, the film “The Iceman” was released about the life of Richard Kuklinski, of Dumont, a mob hitman who was convicted of killing five people in the late 1980s, but boasted of killing more than 100.

Rodrigo Torrejon may be reached at rtorrejon@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @rodrigotorrejon.

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