Plans for a Lifetime telepic starring Hayden Panettiere as Amanda Knox are prompting legal battle cries in Italy. Lawyers for the 23-year-old American and her Italian former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito — both convicted in the controversial murder case and currently behind bars in Perugia — have announced they intend to take action. Titled “The Amanda Knox Story,” the Lifetime telepic is to be directed by Robert Dornheim and produced by Pilgrim Films and Television, the shingle run by Craig Piligian (”Dirty Jobs”), with plans to air sometime in 2011. Knox and Sollecito were found guilty in December 2009, after an 11-month trial, of the murder of Meredith Kercher, a British woman who shared an apartment with Knox, who at the time was an exchange student, and two others. Kercher was stabbed, with signs of prior sexual assault, according to prosecutors. The Knox and Sollecito appeals trial is now scheduled to start on Nov. 24.
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