Amanda Knox True Crime Limited Series in the Works at Hulu
Hulu is nearing a deal to make a limited series out of the unbelievable true crime story of Amanda Knox, who will executive produce the project herself, along with Monica Lewinsky and Emmy-winning producer Warren Littlefield (Fargo, The Handmaid’s Tale).
Written and executive produced by KJ Steinberg (This Is Us), the untitled limited series is based on the true story of how Knox was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free, leading to the author and activist’s wrongful-conviction ordeal and its aftermath.
The Amanda Knox series had been on priority-track development at Hulu for a while. Lewinsky, who also is known for her activism, teased it in an October appearance on Today about a PSA campaign on self-bullying, where she said:
‘I wish it were announced already, but I’m executive producing a limited series that’s on another young woman who found her life decimated and ripped apart on the world stage, but she somehow managed to survive. I think it’s going to be really powerful.”
Lewinsky also took control of the narrative of a story that brought her notoriety in her 20s — her affair with President Bill Clinton — by serving as a producer on Ryan Murphy’s FX limited series Impeachment: American Crime Story, whose streaming home is Hulu.
Knox spent almost four years incarcerated in Italy for the 2007 murder of Kercher, a fellow exchange student with whom she shared an apartment in Perugia, before being acquitted. She wrote about the experience in her 2013 memoir Waiting to be Heard, and also was featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary Amanda Knox. The case was previously dramatized in the Lifetime movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy.
via: Deadline