Amanda Knox Limited Series Close to Hulu Order

Amanda Knox is ready to tell her story on the small screen. According to sources, Hulu has almost greenlighted a series about the wrongful conviction of writer and activist Amanda Knox and its aftermath. Knox will executive produce the series with Emmy winner Warren Littlefield (Fargo, The Handmaid's Tale) and Monica Lewinsky. An actress is being sought for the lead role.



The as-yet-untitled limited series is written and produced by KJ Steinberg (This Is Us) and is based on the true story of how Knox (pictured) was wrongfully convicted of the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her sixteen-year journey to free herself to get.

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

The Amanda Knox series had been in development at Hulu for a while. Lewinsky, who is also known for her activism, shared news of the series in October on Today on a PSA campaign about 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 series such as the Littlefield-produced Dopesick and several series with female leads, including The Dropout, Candy and The Girl From Plainville.

Steinberg recently served as executive producer on NBC's critically acclaimed drama This Is Us. Previously, she created and produced Mistresses (US) on ABC.

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

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

The Littlefield Co., whose series 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, returns to production this year for its sixth and final season. The company is also behind the Jeff Bridges drama The Old Man.