WATCH ABOVE: First Look at ‘Face of an Angel,’ Inspired By Amanda Knox
TORONTO – The first footage of a film drama said to be inspired by the infamous Amanda Knox case has been released.
The film The Face of an Angel is said to be a fictionalized adaptation of the book Angel Face: Sex, Murder and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox.
The novel was written by American journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau who investigated the circumstances surrounding Knox’s time in Italy in 2009.
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The film follows a filmmaker, played by actor Daniel Bruhl, and an American journalist and author (Kate Beckinsale) as they follow the trial of a murdered British student in Italy.
While a release date for the film has yet to be set, producers say the movie is only loosely based on the murder case that garnered headlines around the world.
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On Thursday, an appeals court in Florence reinstated the guilty verdict against Knox and an ex-boyfriend in the 2007 slaying of her British roommate in Italy. Knox was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison, raising the spectre of a long legal battle over her extradition if the conviction is confirmed.
The verdict was overturned in 2011, but the court vacated that decision and sent the case back for a third trial in Florence.
Knox returned to her home in Seattle after another Italian court overturned her conviction, and that of her former boyfriend.
Lawyers for the pair are planning to appeal this latest conviction, a process that could take another year.
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If it’s upheld, there could then be a battle over whether the U.S. will extradite Knox to Italy. In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday, Knox said she would “never go willingly back” to Italy.
Kercher, 21, was found dead Nov. 2, 2007 in a pool of blood in the bedroom of the apartment she and Knox shared in the central Italian city of Perugia, where both were studying. Her throat had been slashed and she was sexually assaulted.
Knox has denied she had anything to do with the death of her former roomate.
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