Grace Van Patten Brings Amanda Knox’s ‘Twisted’ Story to Life in New Hulu Series: See the Teaser

Hulu’s new show digs into Amanda Knox’s fight for freedom.

The first look at The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox dropped on Monday, June 16, which stars Grace Van Patten as the exoneree. The limited series is inspired by the story of Knox’s wrongful murder conviction, “and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free,” according to the official synopsis.

“Many people think they know my story,” Patten says in the teaser. “But now, it’s my turn to tell it.”

Created by This Is Us’ KJ Steinberg, the project is executive produced by Knox and her husband Chris Robinson, Monica Lewinsky, Michael Uppendah and The Littlefield Company. Along with Patten, the cast includes Sharon Horgan, John Hoogenakker, Francesco Acquaroli, Giuseppe De Domenico and Roberta Mattei.

Knox was found guilty of the murder of a British college student nearly 20 years ago.

In 2007, Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were accused of killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher, while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. Although she was found guilty in 2009, she was acquitted two years later and returned home to Seattle, Washington.

Then, in 2013, the Italian courts ordered a retrial of her case and ultimately sentenced her to over 28 years in prison. She did not travel back to the country and was not extradited, and in 2015, Italy’s highest court of appeals once again overturned her conviction after DNA proved a sole drifter named Rudy Guede committed the crime.

Knox has used her platform to advocate for criminal justice in the decade since.

Part of Knox’s mission has been to prevent the wrongful convictions of others over the past decade. Shortly before her final exoneration, she penned a memoir about the ordeal, titled Waiting to Be Heard, which became a New York Times bestseller. 

She also participated in a Netflix documentary titled Amanda Knox in 2016 and was nominated the following year for two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Knox has made amends with the man who put her in prison.

In 2019, Knox returned to Italy as the keynote speaker at a criminal justice conference hosted by the Italy Innocence Project, and again in 2023 to meet with the prosecutor in her case, Dr. Giuliano Mignini.

“As a victim of his choices, one of the questions that I just was always plagued with was, “Why? Why me? What was happening here that you saw, in me, the devil?” Knox, now 37, told PEOPLE in March.

“I never set out to forgive him,” she added. “I think that’s an important point to make as I’m not a person whose faith, for example, compels them to forgive. That was not my goal. My goal was to understand him… there was this deep curiosity in me to try to understand this person who decided that I was a dangerous person, who deserved to spend the most years of my life in prison.”

The two slowly developed a friendship that led to her trip to visit him after he admitted to being wrong about things during her trial. 

“He was a real person,” Knox explained. “He wasn’t this dark, dark, mythical figure. He was a real human being who had real feelings and real thoughts, not a boogeyman. And as soon as I saw that, I could empathize with him. And as soon as you empathize with someone, you have compassion for them.”

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The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox premieres with two episodes on Wednesday, Aug. 20, on Hulu, followed by new episodes weekly.