The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

David Gordon Green is in final negotiations to write and direct a screen adaptation of John Grisham’s nonfiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town for Warner Independent Pictures and George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s production company Smoke House. (The Book Standard)

WIP teaming with David Gordon Green for two movies. David Gordon Green is in talks to write and direct a movie adaptation of John Grisham’s nonfiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town for Warner Independent Pictures and George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s production company Smoke House. The book is about Ron Williamson, a man who spent 10 years on death row in Oklahoma after being wrongly accused of murder. WIP and Smoke House bought rights to the book in December. WIP also bought worldwide distribution rights to Green’s Snow Angels, starring Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell. The movie, which premiered at January’s Sundance Festival, is an adaptation of Stewart O’Nan’s 1993 novel about a separated couple (Beckinsale and Rockwell) in a small town whose lives take a turn for the worse when the woman begins an affair with the husband (Nicky Katt) of her best friend (Amy Sedaris). (the Hollywood Reporter)

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