The TV series on Amanda Knox will be made.
Hulu, Disney's streaming channel, has given the green light to the dramatization of the legal case that saw the former Seattle student accused in Italy and then acquitted of the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher.
Knox herself
is among the producers together with Monica Lewinsky
, the former intern involved with then President Bill Clinton in the Sexgate scandal.
Margaret Qualley from Maid will play Amanda, convicted and then acquitted in Perugia of the charge of killing Meredith in 2007.
Knox will have excellent collaborators in the production: in addition to Lewinsky, Warren Littlefield (Fargo and The Handmaid's Tale) and KJ Steinberg of This Is Us, Mistresses and Gossip Girl will work with her and will also write the screenplay.
Filming is expected to begin in the coming months.
Hulu asked for
eight one-hour
episodes
.
The official description explains that the series "is based on the true story of how Knox was wrongly convicted of Meredith's murder and depicts her sixteen-year-old odyssey to get rid of her."
The show had been among Hulu's priorities for some time.
Lewinsky had anticipated something about it in October without going into detail.
Known for her activism against the media pillorying in which she herself ended up at the time of the political storm that led to the Clinton impeachment trial, the former White House intern announced then that she had joined the team of "a limited series about
another young woman who saw her life torn apart on the world stage
, but somehow managed to survive."
Now a mother of two
, 36-year-old Knox recounted her experience firsthand in her 2013 memoir Waiting to be Heard.
The former student's story was
also the focus of a Netflix documentary
and the Lifetime film Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy.
In December Amanda said she was ready to return to Italy to defend herself from the accusation of having slandered the musician of Congolese origin Patrick Lumumba in the initial phase of the investigation.
A crime, that of slander, which cost the American a three-year prison sentence (already served), now annulled by the Supreme Court which ordered a new examination of the documents in Florence.
The
new trial will begin, again in Florence, on April 10th
.
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