Reese Witherspoon will play Pam Hobbs, the mother of a West Memphis Three murder victim, who initially believes the trio committed the crime. She is eventually is persuaded that they are innocent. The trio were exonerated from the 1993 murders this past August, after spending nearly two decades in prison.
Meantime Firth will play Ron Lax, a prominent private investigator and the first pro bono supporter of the defendents as they headed to trial in 1993. Lax helped find the DNA in the knots that bound one of the victims, evidence which cast suspicion on the stepfather of one of the boys - Terry Hobbs.
Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson wrote the screenplay adapted from Mara Leveritt's non-fiction book on the case. with Boardman and Egoyan doing re-writes recently
Production begins this Summer in Louisiana
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