'You' star Victoria Pedretti had been attached to star in the movie adaptation of Alice Sebold's memoir 'Lucky,' which is no longer moving forward
The movie was dropped after losing its financing months ago, according to a source close to the production. Pedretti is also no longer involved.
Anthony Broadwater, the man who is portrayed in her novel and was convicted with first-degree rape and five other charges in this case, was exonerated on Nov. 24 in New York State Supreme Court. Mucciante, who was an executive producer on “Lucky” and was meant to provide the film’s financing via his banner Red Badge Films, played a crucial role in getting Broadwater’s conviction re-examined. Mucciante “began to question the story that the movie was based on earlier this year, after he noticed discrepancies between the memoir and the script,”Mucciante left the project in June and hired a private investigator to examine the evidence against Broadwater.
“I started having some doubts, not about the story that Alice told about her assault, which was tragic, but the second part of her book about the trial, which didn’t hang together,” Mucciante told the Times.but ignored questions from a Daily Mail journalist
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