movie director richard linkletter, the name behind films like daze and confused directed a film calledis murder. and now that the two men are about to become roommates. ed lavandera has the story. >> i am not going to take part in this argument. you know i don't like you. >> i know you hate me! >> no. >> reporter: that's actor jack black playing the role of bernie tiede in a moe called "bernie", a dark comedy about a beloved east texas mortician who killed his dear friend marjorie nugent in the 1990s. type de hid her body in a deep freezer after shooting her, and for nine months he kept up the charade that nothing was wrong in the small town of carthage, texas, until investigators uncovered his morbid secret. >> is that too much for me to ask for you to be a man for once in your life? >> reporter: skip hollingsworth wrote the story and could wrote the movie screenplay. normally someone who commits a horrific murder is a villain. but in this case, bernie is still a saint. there. >> are people that talk about bernie as if he is a saint, and that he just made one little mistake with mrs.