Overview
- The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox premieres August 20, streaming on Hulu in the U.S. and on Disney+ in Italy.
- Grace Van Patten portrays Knox, with Sharon Horgan as her mother Edda Mellas and John Hoogenakker as her father Kurt Knox, under director Michael Uppendahl.
- The production comes from 20th Television with The Littlefield Company, with executive producers KJ Steinberg, Warren Littlefield, Monica Lewinsky, Amanda Knox and Chris Robinson.
- Meredith Kercher’s family, through lawyer Francesco Maresca, condemned the project and urged that her memory be protected.
- Some scenes were filmed in Perugia, renewing local sensitivity around a case that saw Rudy Guede convicted and the later definitive acquittals of Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.