Michael Winterbottom’s Amanda Knox Movie Just Got A Conveniently-Timed Trailer

The never-ending saga of Amanda Knox (or ‘Foxy Knoxy’, as she was famously dubbed) continues to be, well, never-ending.

After she was freed on appeal (citing a “lack of evidence”) following her original 2009 conviction — alongside her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito — for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate Meredith Kircher in the Italian town of Perugia, Italy’s Supreme Court overturned the decision last year, retried the case, and handed down a brand new guilty verdict just last week, increasing Knox’s prison sentence to 28 years and six months. Her legal team in Seattle — where Knox is currently living — are appealing the new decision, citing that awesome ‘Double Jeopardy’ clause that we all learned about in the underrated Ashley Judd movie.

Needless to say — with its in-built elements of young and beautiful people, love, murder, betrayal, and a nice Italian setting — movie producers’ ears have been cha-chinging at the salacious story for years. And while it’s already inspired a bunch of melodramatic made-for-TV movies (starring Hayden Panettiere, even!), the first serious attempt at bringing it to the big-screen comes from an unlikely source: UK arthouse hero, Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy, The Trip).

The epically-titled Face Of An Angel (based on the book Angel Face: Sex, Murder, And The Inside Story Of Amanda Knox, by journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau) stars Kate Beckinsale, Daniel Bruhl, supermodel Cara Delevingne, and Dutch actress Genevieve Gaunt as Knox (well, basically; the names have been changed), and is due for a cinematic release later this year. Perhaps sensing an opportunity to ride the renewed media interest in the case’s new developments, the studio released a teaser earlier this morning:

I don’t know, that’s gonna be the weirdest date movie ever.