Lifetime to Alter Amanda Knox Movie After Conviction Overturned
EmailA Lifetime TV movie about Amanda Knox will be updated now that the 24-year-old women from Seattle has been acquitted of murdering roommate Meredith Kercher.
An Italian appeals court overturned Knox’s murder conviction Monday, ending her four-year ordeal, releasing her from prison and vacating her 26-year sentence.
Les Eisner, a Lifetime spokesman, said the film about Knox’s trial and 2009 conviction would be altered and that when it aired, the movie would be accompanied by several sentences before and after the film explaining the overturning of Knox’s conviction.
Eisner said the text included in those sentences had not yet been determined but that they are “the only alterations being made to the film.”
The movie was scheduled to air on the cable channel’s website today, Wednesday and Thursday.
Billed as “based on a true story,” the film titled “Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy” aired on the cable channel in February. Knox was reportedly shocked and hyperventilating when she saw a TV newscast in Italy about the TV movie.
It also angered her family, which in a statement lashed out at Lifetime for what they saw as “a selfish, profit-making motive behind their decision. … The story they have told is riddled with a multitude of inaccuracies and we are deeply upset at its airing.”
Kercher’s family also was upset by the film and its lawyer called the movie “inopportune and inappropriate.”
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Having had to suffer life in Italy with spoiled, rich, white American kids who seem to think the continent is their personal playground, I was probably biased against Knox from the beginning. But the facts remain stubborn:
1) She confessed. I know she claimed that she had done so under duress (again- this is in Italy, not China, and when are confessions not made under some degree of duress?) but the next day she rewrote her account over five pages.
2) She blamed a completely innocent man who would now be in prison for life had he not had a cast-iron alibi thanks to a Swiss businessman coming forward after reading about the case.
3) Neither she nor her boyfriend could agree on what they had been doing that night. She claims she spent the night smoking up with him before having sex. He couldn’t remember! He, a young red-blooded Italian. He did claim that he had downloaded movies on his computer at the time, but computer records don’t support this. Both had shut off their phones conveniently at the very time of the murder.
4) And then, who was responsible for staging the break-in?
Posted by: Keir | October 4, 2011, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm
I don’t believe in american rubbish propaganda. Americans corrupted the Italian justice system with dirty money. This is what happens when a person or a country has too much money. Yanks cannot force the entire world to believe that Amanda is innocent. Her acquittal is too politically motivated since yanks had politicize the murder case and making it look like as if it is anti-american (based on what the yankee senator back in USA said). Yanks/americans cannot change or distort the movie from telling the truth because we don’t believe in american rubbish or media hype surrounding the case made by Knox family’s PR machine funded by someone like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Changing movie based on the yanks’ beliefs is dumb. There could be 2 versions of the movie but don’t force the anti-amanda movie just to please USA or the dirty yanks. This is why USA is the most hated country.
Posted by: Why distorting the truth? | October 7, 2011, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
1. She ‘confessed’ after a night of interrogation which asked her to ‘imagine’ what happened. This fantasy is the confession. Happens all the time in murder cases. The cops get people to implicate innocent people after a night of no sleep and scaring the crap out of them. Means very little.
2. She blamed innocent guy. True. So did the cops. Are they murders now? Lumumba was their first suspect. They went to Amanda because they exchanged text messages that night. She must be guilty! Ah, but she worked for the guy and they were texting about work schedules. So does this mean anything? Not really. The cops made these college kids say these things and they’re not reliable. Big deal.
3. The alibi of the kids were confused…but then they were smoking hash and probably felt a little nervous about telling the cops about their sex and drug use. He’s is not much a red-blooded Italian…he seems more the classic shy nerd type.
4. The ‘staged break in’ was actually a pretty straightforward break in! The cops thought it was staged because glass fell on clothes in the room. Who puts clothes on the floor of their house? They asked. How strange! Actually, Guede’s Modus Operandi was using a rock to break into places and here he used a rock to break into this place. The police didn’t suspect Guede so this ‘break in’ had to be faked! It was a Satanic Sex Crime with a drifter and two nerds!
All the evidence–DNA, motive, prints, criminal history–points to Guede.
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