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Hayden Panettiere to play Amanda Knox
Hayden Panettiere, the pint-sized actress best known for starring in Sci-fi series Heroes, is set to play jailed murderer Amanda Knox.
Earlier this year, Knox was sentenced to 26 years in jail for the murder of her British housemate Meredith Kercher.
The film is set to air on an American television channel next year, and the Kercher family is said to be unhappy that a Hollywood version of the murder is being made.
The family’s lawyer Francesco Maresca said that ‘It is inopportune as the trial is still ongoing with two further appeals.’
A media-storm followed the 2007 murder case, and Knox’s erratic behavior and promiscuous past led to her being nicknamed, ‘Foxy Knoxy’.
Kercher was a student living in Perugia, Italy when Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are said to have taken part in a sex attack that ended with Kercher's throat being cut with a six-inch kitchen knife.
Script writer Wendy Battles, who has worked on CSI: NY and Law & Order, will write the film’s screenplay.
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