Colin Firth has joined the cast of Atom Egoyan's The Devil's Knot , Deadline reports. He'll star opposite the previously announced Reese Witherspoon in the narrative take on the West Memphis Three.
Released from prison earlier this year after nearly two decades, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. and Jason Baldwin were convicted of the murder of three eight-year-old boys in 1993. Their trial was the subject of the Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky documentary, Paradise Lost that brought national media attention to the trial and its outcome. Believing the conviction to be in error, Berlinger and Sinofsky fought for the release of the three with a sequel, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations . A third film, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory , has incorporated details of the recent release...
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