The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox retraces the crime of Perugia from the point of view of the most discussed protagonist. The series, coming in August, already divides the public
A few months after the success (and controversy) of Here is not Hollywood – The series signed by Pippo Mezzapesa who reconstructed the murder of Sarah Scazzi in Avetrana – Italian spectators are preparing to welcome a new equally divisive project. It is titled The twisted such of Amanda Knoxwill be released on August 20 on Hulu and, in Italy, in streaming on Disney+. The series reopens one of the most discussed black news cases of the last twenty years: the crime of Perugia, which in 2007 shocked both Italian public and American opinion.
The victim was Meredith KercherBritish student in Erasmus in the Umbrian city, brutally killed at only 22 years of age in the apartment he shared with other girls, including Amanda Knox. Knox and her boyfriend of the time, Raffaele SollecitoThey soon ended up at the center of a complex and controversial judicial process. After years of processes, appeals and enormous media attention, both were definitively acquitted in 2015. The only condemned for murder remains Rudy Guede. But even today, almost twenty years later, the story continues to arouse questions, divisions and tensions.
Amanda Knox and Monica Lewinski, together with the series of the series
Produced by KJ Steinberg (This is us, Mistresses), the series – composed of eight episodes – He chooses to tell this story through the perspective of Amanda Knox same, which for years has been at the center of a real international media case. Not surprisingly, Among the executive producers there is the same Knoxtoday writer and podcaster, flanked by another figure known to the American public: Monica Lewinskyinvolved in turn in one of the most famous political-sexual scandals of American history. “A great affinity immediately created each other”revealed the creator of the series.
Who will play Amanda Knox in the TV series
In the role of Amanda we find Grace Van Patten (Nine Perfect Strangers, Tell Me Lies), which in the first trailer of the series pronounces emblematic words: “Many think they know my story, but now it’s up to me to tell me”. The nickname Foxy Knoxycoined by the press of the time to underline the most ambiguous and seductive aspects attributed to the young American, remained impressed in the collective imagination. But The twisted such of Amanda Knox He wants to go beyond labels and return complexity to the story.
Initially the role of Amanda had been proposed to Margaret Qualleywho had to give up other cinematographic commitments. The responsibility thus fell on Grace Van Patten, who will have to support a role with a high emotional impact, especially considering how much the case continues to divide public opinion, both in Italy and in the United States.
The series, an intimate portrait of Amanda before and after chance
“This series is the anatomy of a bias”explained Steinberg a Entertainment Weekly. «Of course there was misogyny and also racism and nationalism, but this is not the point of the show. Amanda firmly believes, like me, on the other hand, that all the characters involved in her judicial affair have not been guided by bad faith. They arrived with a set of convictions, they made an opinion on the situation and those opinions became real prejudices in which people rooted. An attitude that soon became dangerous ».
The series will also try to return the image of Amanda before the tragedy“That at the time he was just a child, even if the narration contributed to sexualize her”, as the creator herself points out. A symbolic role will also be entrusted to a film much loved by Knox: Amélie’s fabulous worldthat she declared that she was looking at the evening of the crime. “I think the film reflects well who was Amanda before the murder,” added Steinberg. “Innocence, romantic idealism, appetite for adventure are all things that belonged to Amanda and that have been stolen from her and Meredith and their families”.
There polarization between innocentists and culpinesThe media parallel to the institutional one, the political and diplomatic interferences They transformed the death of Meredith Kercher into a collective drama, often closer to the reality show than the judicial news. The same figure of the victim, in the media clamor, was often obscured by the spotlight on Amanda and on the other protagonists of the story.
With this new series, you try once again to tell a story through the point of those who lived it – Just as it had happened in Here is not Hollywoodwhere each episode told the case from the point of view of a different character. If it will be an honest narrative without ambiguity we will discover it starting from August 20, when The twisted such of Amanda Knox It will debut on Disney+.
