Mez: Thriller Interrupted (3#) -

Lawyers for Amanda Knox plan to restrain the debut of the Lifetime thriller movie about the Meredith Kercher Murder until all their appeal potential is exhausted, Nick Vivarelli reports at Variety.

Hayden Panettiere has been cast as the convicted murderer Amanda Knox, who is currently serving a 26-year sentence in an Italian prison for the crime.

"I don’t see how they can make a film called The Amanda Knox Story when the story is really all about my daughter. It’s all very odd," Arline Kercher, mother of the butchered Erasmus Scholar, observed.

Hasn't Lifetime gotten ahead of itself in its eagerness to produce its version of the story, Eliot Sefton asks at TFP.

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