The success of the series Tremembé: A Prisão dos Famosos on Prime Video has aroused public curiosity about the choices made in the production, including the choice of criminals to include. In an interview with big city”, screenwriter and author of the book that inspired the series, Ulysses Campbell, revealed that there was an incident he wanted to insert into the plot, but it ended up being “cut”.
This is Matheus da Costa Meira, known as the “Mall Shooter”. Despite Campbell’s interest in telling his story, the incident was not featured in the series due to one of the criteria used by the screenwriters.
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According to Ulisses, the team chose to only portray inmates who actually spent their time in prison at the beginning of the series’ writing process to ensure the story’s consistency and authenticity.
“We wanted to include the mall shooter who was serving time in Tremembe, but we couldn’t live with any of these prisoners when we passed through Tremembe in the 1990s. So using this criterion of temporality, they were excluded,” the screenwriter explained in an interview.
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morumbi shooting incident
On November 3, 1999, Mateus da Costa Meira, then a medical student, entered a cinema in São Paulo’s Morumbi Shopping and opened fire with a submachine gun at the audience. Three people were killed and four injured.
The trial took place five years later, in 2004, and the São Paulo Justice Court (TJSP) sentenced Meira to 120 years and six months in prison. Three years later, his sentence was reduced to 48 years and 9 months.
The gunman was serving his sentence at Tremembe Prison in Sao Paulo’s interior, but was transferred to Lemos Brito Prison in Salvador in February 2009 at the request of his family in Bahia. He was released from prison in September 2024 after 25 years in custody.
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