Colin Firth Looking For Devil's Knot

Joining free airline Memphis Three dramaAs director Atom Egoyan puts the pieces (and also the funding) together for Devil's Knot,the brand new dramatic film in line with the West Memphis Three situation, he's switched to a person he's labored with before to fill one of the main roles: Colin Firth.The actor, who co-starred in Egoyan's In Which The Truth Lies, is aboard to experience private eye Ron Poor, who is a key crusader for that three males in the center from the situation. He decided to improve the defense evidence for Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelly Junior once they were charged with, and jailed for, the murder of three eight-year-old boys in 1993. The trio offered 17 years imprisonment (with Echols on dying row) prior to being freed following a lengthy campaign to prove their innocence.Last December, Reese Witherspoon was cast as Pam Hobbs, mom of among the sufferers, who began out convinced that the 3 were guilty, but eventually found regard them as wrongly accused.As The Exorcism Of Emily Rose team of Scott Derrickson and Paul Boardman modified the very first draft from the script from Mara Leveritt's 2003 book Devil's Knot: The Real Story From The West Memphis Three, Egoyan has worked with Boardman on the rewrite and they are now searching for the money to have it began.