Amanda Knox Limited Series Nears Hulu Order With Knox Producing Alongside KJ Steinberg, Warren Littlefield & Monica Lewinsky

Nellie Andreeva
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EXCLUSIVE: Amanda Knox is ready to tell her story on screen. According to sources, Hulu is close to greenlighting a limited series about the author and activist’s wrongful-conviction ordeal and its aftermath. Knox will executive produce the series with Emmy-winning producer Warren Littlefield (Fargo, The Handmaid’s Tale) and Monica Lewinsky. Search is underway for an actress to play the lead.

Written and executive produced by KJ Steinberg (This Is Us), the untitled limited series is based on the true story of how Knox was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free.

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Steinberg and Lewinsky are executive producing the series, which is expected to film this year, with Littlefield, Ann Johnson, Graham Littlefield & Lisa Harrison of The Littlefield Company as well as Knox & Chris Robinson. 20th Television is the studio.

The Amanda Knox series had been on priority-track development at Hulu for a while. Lewinsky, who also is known for her activism, teased it in an October appearance on Today about a PSA campaign on self-bullying.

‘I wish it were announced already, but I’m executive producing a limited series that’s on another young woman who found her life decimated and ripped apart on the world stage, but she somehow managed to survive,” she said at the time. “I think it’s going to be really powerful.”

Lewinsky also took control of the narrative of a story that brought her notoriety in her 20s — her affair with President Bill Clinton — by serving as a producer on Ryan Murphy’s FX limited series Impeachment: American Crime Story, whose streaming home is Hulu.

Hulu has found success with true-crime limited series, like the Littlefield-produced Dopesick and several shows with female protagonists including The Dropout, Candy and The Girl from Plainville.

Steinberg recently served as an executive producer on NBC’s praised drama This Is Us. Before that, she created and executive produced ABC’s Mistresses.

Knox spent almost four years incarcerated in Italy for the 2007 murder of Kercher, a fellow exchange student with whom she shared an apartment in Perugia, before being acquitted. She wrote about the experience in her 2013 memoir Waiting to be Heard, and also was featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary Amanda Knox. The case was previously dramatized in the Lifetime movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy.

Over the past few years, Knox has hosted The Scarlet Letter Reports on Facebook Watch and podcast The Truth About True Crime.

The Littlefield Co., whose shows have earned 147 Emmy nominations including 23 wins, produces Fargo, which recently premiered its fifth season starring Jon Hamm, Juno Temple and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The company’s The Handmaid’s Tale, starring Elisabeth Moss, goes back into production for its sixth and final season this year. It is also behind the Jeff Bridges drama The Old Man.

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