When Vanity Fair interviewed the director and co-screenwriter of the new Matt Damon vehicle, “Stillwater,” the man behind the movie said it was directly inspired by the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of Amanda Knox, a U.S. student who was accused of murdering her roommate while studying in Italy.
“There were so many characters around the case that I really followed pretty closely,” said the director, Tom McCarthy. “But really the first thing that I took away from it was, what would that be like as an American student to go over [to Europe] for what should be one of the most exciting moments in a young-adult life and to find yourself in that tragedy? There were just so many layers to that story that kept anyone who was following pretty riveted…. Who are the people that are visiting [her], and what are those relationships? Like, what’s the story around the story?”
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