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Reese Witherspoon Stars in Devil's Knot
Reese Witherspoon will star in "Devil's Knot,"
Atom Egoyan's movie about the West Memphis Three, one of the film's
producers told TheWrap on Thursday. The Weinstein Co.'s Dimension Films
has been developing the "Devil's Knot" project for years. The West Memphis
Three were also the subjects of a three-part HBO documentary, "Paradise
Lost." In the new film, Witherspoon will play Pam Hobbs, the mother of
three 8-year-old boys who were brutally murdered in West Memphis, Ark., in
May 1993.
Hobbs had been among those who accused Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley
and Jason Baldwin of committing the infamous murders. In November 2007,
she said new evidence had changed her mind. "Did I really believe it, no,
not 100 percent that they did it," she told Jonesboro, Ark.-based KAIT-TV.
"I didn't believe they were capable enough or smart enough to have
committed the crime, cleaned the scene up and be guilty for it."
After spending 17 years in prison, Echols, Misskelley and Baldwin were
released from prison in August as part of a plea deal. Over the years,
Eddie Vedder, Henry Rollins and other prominent musicians had raised money
in support of the West Memphis Three, who had maintained their innocence
all along.
Dimension acquired the rights to journalist Mara Leveritt's book "Devil's
Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three" in 2006, and hired Scott
Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman to write the script.
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