Television Dramas Based on True Crime Cases, Including "The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox."
Almost everyone had an opinion on Amanda Knox's case back when she was imprisoned in an Italian prison after being falsely convicted of killing her roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad.
As an executive producer on Hulu's new dramatic series, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, which stars Grace Van Patten, the exoneree is now sharing her story.
"The show gives everyone the opportunity to understand it more and to form an opinion based on facts, and not what they were being fed at the time,” recently, the actress revealed to The New York Times. "She was just a 20-year-old girl going through this."
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Knox, who was a college student studying abroad in Perugia, Italy at the time, and Raffaele Sollecito, whom she had just started dating, were charged with Kercher's murder 18 years ago. The two were found guilty of murder in 2009, had their convictions overturned in 2011, were found not guilty again in 2014, and were finally exonerated in 2015, making their court battle a national story for years.
But according to Knox, the Hulu program transcends the verdict. The 38-year-old clarified to The Hollywood Reporter in a video posted on August 18 that. "This series is not just a courtroom drama that ends when Amanda Knox gets out of prison," "That’s typically how you see these stories told. This story is really anchored in the long consequences of the trauma that happened in the courtroom and how a person rebuilds their life and rebuilds their faith in humanity by taking risks. There’s a story of me, Amanda, taking a big risk to have faith and trust in people again and the benefits of that and the costs of that."
Knox was excited to share that aspect of her trip with Monica Lewinsky, another famous figure who was well-accustomed to being at the center of a media storm.
"That’s why it’s so important to show the afterwards," she went on to say. "Once you’ve been labeled and diminished and buried as a human being, how do you emerge as a person who is more complex and has more value than what society gave you credit for?"
Hulu will debut The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on August 20. But it is by no means the first true crime case to use as the basis for a narrative based on actual facts.
