Hayden Panettiere ends up Amanda Knox for Lifetime Movie: With her Heroes days behind her, Hayden Panettiere has hung up her pom poms and is taking on more serious roles. The twenty one year old has begun promotions for her new movie, Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy where she portrays the true life story of the now infamous American exchange student accused by Italian authorities of brutally killing her roommate.
The Lifetime Original Movie premiers Monday, February 21st, at 9PM ET/PT and immediately following the movie at 11PM ET/PT, Lifetime will premiere the hour-long documentary, Beyond the Headlines: Amanda Knox.
The program features Amanda’s mother and father, as well as friends, investigators, prosecutors and legal scholars who take viewers inside the Italian justice system and reveal what it’s like to be a foreigner locked up and convicted in another country.
Set in the town of Perugia, Italy, and Amanda’s hometown of Seattle, the documentary will unravel the legal evidence and allegations to look at what really happened to Meredith Kercher on November 2, 2007 – and what Amanda Knox’s role might have been.
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy poses the question of whether Knox (Panettiere), the Seattle honors student accused of murdering her college roommate Meredith Kercher (Amanda Fernando Stevens) in 2007 with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito (Paolo Romio) and acquaintance Rudy Guede (Djirbi Kebe), actually committed the crime or was herself a victim. Referred to as “Foxy Knoxy” by her Italian prosecutor, Guiliani Mignini (Vincent Riotta), and the press, Knox was painted as an oversexed remorseless killer during her two-year trial leading up to her conviction and subsequent sentencing to 26 years in jail. Harden portrays Amanda’s mother Edda Mellas.
We will be speaking with Hayden on Monday about playing the role of Amanda. So if you have any questions for her, let us know!