Sharon Horgan has been confirmed for a new limited series based on the story of Amanda Knox.
The Catastrophe and Bad Sisters star/creator will be a series regular on Hulu’s Amanda, playing Knox’s mother Edda Mellas, Deadline reports.
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Starring Nine Perfect Strangers’ Grace Van Patten as Knox (replacing Margaret Qualley), the true-crime series will retell the story of how the exchange student was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, and the long fight to gain her freedom.
The Knox case has been covered on TV in multiple forms over the years: Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy was released in 2011 starring Scream‘s Hayden Panettiere, while BBC Three and Netflix released their own documentaries in 2014 and 2016, respectively.
The 2021 Matt Damon movie Stillwater based a lot of its fictional story on Knox’s ordeal, something the actor openly admitted.
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Knox herself hit out at the film, stating: “The way that they’ve chosen to use my name as a promotional tool, is going to impact me directly.
“(The filmmakers) created a story that didn’t really take the premise of my story as a springboard, (but one that rather) really did entrench itself in the scandalous interpretation of my story that was presented by the prosecution – one in which I was either directly or indirectly involved in the death of my roommate, who supposedly I had a sexual involvement and entanglement with, which I absolutely did not in real life.”
Meanwhile, Horgan’s show Motherland was recently confirmed to have ended, although there’s still hope of an Amanda-focused spin-off in place of a fourth season.
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