Acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom is also said to have a movie based on the case in the works.
If a movie were made which adhered strictly to the facts, which plot points do you think would be more compelling to an audience and director: The story of a typical home burglary turned deadly, a corrupt prosecutor convicted of his own crimes, the many blunders of the police involved, Amandas demonization in the media, and three families lives ruined as a result
Or, the story of Amanda maybe lying about what time she ate dinner, and maybe she should have called the cops as soon as she saw a streak of blood in the sink, and maybe she was referring to her boss as a friend in the letter, and maybe she retracted her accusation of an innocent man, and maybe she should have cried more. This movie would be called "Definitely, Maybe"... if only the title weren't already taken.
As a television producer I think I know which parts Id find meaningful and which parts the audience would find completely meaningless and convoluted. Id almost like to see a movie which depicts the prosecutions narrative and the circumstantial evidence in a serious manner. A movie about a girl who moves to Italy and puts a large kitchen knife in her purse for protection, which just so happens to come in handy a few nights later when she gets stoned, and instead of spending the evening relaxing like most people in her condition would do, she gets turned on by seeing a guy she barely knows rape her roommate and immediately recruits her boyfriend to help her and the near-stranger stab and torture the roommate to death. Sounds like a bunch of fantasy, not real life. Mignini should produce horror movies.
