'Primetime' star Robert Pattinson shocks fans with Chris Hansen transformation in 'unsettling' trailer

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“To Catch A Predator” quickly ended after a highly controversial 2006 sting in Texas involving assistant district attorney Bill Conradt. Conradt had allegedly communicated online with a decoy posing as a 13-year-old boy but never arrived at the sting house. Instead, police – accompanied by Dateline NBC cameras – went to his home to serve a search warrant. As officers entered the house, Conradt died by suicide.

Although Hansen has maintained that the series simply ran its course after three years, the Conradt case is widely viewed as the event that led to the show’s cancellation in 2008.

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Pattinson has balanced major studio films with acclaimed auteur projects in recent years. He’s appeared in “The Batman,” “The Boy and the Heron,” “Mickey 17,” “Die My Love,” “The Drama” and Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”

He also has several high-profile projects in the pipeline, including “Dune: Part Three,” “Here Comes the Flood” and “The Batman: Part II.”

“Primetime” is scheduled to open in theaters on Sept. 25.