The Lifetime network will premiere the original movie about convicted killer Jodi Arias, titled Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret, on Saturday, June 22, at 8 p.m.

Tania Raymonde portrays the high-profile convicted murderer, Arias, who was on trial for six months because autopsy records showed she stabbed her ex-lover Travis Alexander more than 27 times, slit his throat and shot him in the head on June, 2008.

USA Today writer Randy Cordova wrote on June 18 that the film is better than expected, writing "Smart direction keeps the film from being the tacky disaster you had every right to anticipate."

Cordova shared a spoiler about the movie's introduction scene-it "opens with Jodi and Travis undressed in bed a few moments before the killing, frolicking with a camera."

Enstars reported that Arizona's 12 News interviewed a local woman who auditioned for the role as a reporter. Social media editor Kinsey Shoffield shared a copy of the script and details about the storyline, along with behind-the-scene details of the casting process. The 100-plus page script covers everything from the beginning of the love affair that Arias and Alexander had, to the murder and the explosive trial.

"The (script) lines are just like 'Arias defense is falling apart' 'Arias claims that Travis was the sexual deviant and yet she sent him text messages that look like this one.'"

Shoffield said viewers will "get to see Travis as a human being and as a person and words are coming out of his mouth and from the script, seems to be a very charming character."

Gregory Small one of the movie's screenwriters told USA Today that one of the goals was to give Alexander a voice.

"The obvious responsibility was to speak for Travis," Small told the newspaper.

Actor Jesse Lee Soffer, who plays Alexander, said he believes the murder victim he portrays was "a good guy" so it was his duty make "people to see that."

"In my eyes, Travis was a victim," Soffer, a cast member of As the World Turns for six years, told USA Today in the same report.

The made-for-tv movie follows Arias and Alexander's relationship before the trial, according to Cordova's review in USA Today. On of the film's screenwriters revealed that the script was completed in December, six months before Arias was convicted in May 8. However, it was rewritten again after her conviction.

"This project was in the works over a year ago," the film's screenwriter Richard Blaney told AZCentral.com . "This thing didn't move as fast as everyone thinks. We completed the script in December. We had a pretty good take on where she was coming from. We never really doubted that she was the bad guy."

Lifetime's original movie, Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret, will air on Saturday, June 22, at 8 p.m. A one hour documentary, Jodi Arias: Behind The Deadline, will immediately follow the two-hour original movie.

Watch the preview clip of Lifetime's new film below.

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