She has reportedly threatened to sue the makers of a film loosely based on her own legal woes, but Amanda Knox's fears about larger audiences seeing The Face of an Angel could soon be realized.

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According to Deadline, Screen Media Films has acquired the U.S. rights to Michael Winterbottom's psychological thriller, which premiered to positive reviews during September's Toronto Film Festival, and could be given a day and date release in the second quarter of 2015 in the U.S.

The psychological thriller was inspired loosely by the killing of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy and the resulting trial of her former roommate, Knox. The film stars Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Valerio Mastandrea and Cara Delevingne and follows Brühl's film director character as he researches a movie based on a violent murder that is similar to Kercher's. it is based on the book Angel Face: The True Story of Student Killer Amanda Knox by Barbie Latza Nadeau, an Italian journalist who covered the Knox case.

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In September, as the film was preparing for its TIFF premiere, Knox's attorney, Luciano Ghirga, threatened to sue the film's creators if Knox or he believed it to be damaging to her ongoing appeals case following her re-conviction of murder in January.

"There have already been at least two films and 12 books about the case," he said at the time. "If the film is based even loosely on the murder in Perugia and if it is damaging to Amanda's image, we will be asking for damages, as we have done in other cases."

Ghirga also questioned the portrayal of the Knox-based character in the film because Kercher's family gave it their blessing and allowed for it to be dedicated to her memory.

Knox was initially arrested for the murder of Kercher in 2007, alongside her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and a third man, Rudy Guede. While Guede's trial was fast-tracked and he began serving a 16-year sentence, both Sollecito and Knox pleaded not guilty to the crime. They were convicted in 2009, but released after an appeal threw their convictions out in 2011. The two were reconvicted earlier this year, and are currently awaiting their final appeals trials in March 2015.

If their convictions are upheld, Sollecito, who remains in Italy, would immediately begin serving a 26-year sentence. Knox, who resides in the U.S., would likely become the focus of an extradition battle. If extradited to Italy, she will face a 28 ½ year sentence.

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