Lifetime amends Knox movie

By Amy Kaufman

Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES

A Lifetime movie about the Amanda Knox trial will be updated after the 24-year-old was cleared of murder charges in an Italian court Monday.

“Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy,” which first aired on the television network in February, has Hayden Panettiere playing Knox, who traveled to Italy to study abroad in 2007. While overseas, Knox’s roommate was murdered and the Seattle-bred student was two years later charged with killing her.

In 2009, Knox began serving a 26-year sentence in prison. But on Monday, a jury threw out the murder conviction and a sobbing Knox was immediately set free to return to America.

Accordingly, a spokesperson for Lifetime said that the film centering on Knox’s trial will now be altered. Going forward, whenever the picture airs on the network, it will be accompanied by several sentences explaining the latest turn in the case, which will appear before and after the film.