It often doesn't take long for real-life controversies and tragedies to make their way to the big screen (last year's "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Impossible," just to name some recent examples) -- but they don't usually come in as strange of a package as this.
"Wild Things," the provocative 1998 thriller starring Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon and Bill Murray, could receive a sequel, but with a major twist: It'll be inspired largely by the Amanda Knox murder trial.
To be specific, it's not a sequel per se, according to director John McNaughton, who told Hollywood.com that, if made, the new movie will center on the original characters' children.
"Do you know the Amanda Knox case? It's something like that," McNaughton reportedly said. "Something that's like the child of Suzie Toller [Campbell's character], she claimed that Matt Dillon's [character] had raped her a long time ago and maybe...
"Wild Things," the provocative 1998 thriller starring Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon and Bill Murray, could receive a sequel, but with a major twist: It'll be inspired largely by the Amanda Knox murder trial.
To be specific, it's not a sequel per se, according to director John McNaughton, who told Hollywood.com that, if made, the new movie will center on the original characters' children.
"Do you know the Amanda Knox case? It's something like that," McNaughton reportedly said. "Something that's like the child of Suzie Toller [Campbell's character], she claimed that Matt Dillon's [character] had raped her a long time ago and maybe...
- 4/25/2013
- by Matthew Jacobs
- Huffington Post
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