Atom Egoyan, the Egyptian-born director, plans to start shooting a movie based on convicted murderers the "West Memphis Three" – the subjects of the 1996 documentary “Paradise Lost” – in early spring 2012, TheWrap has confirmed.
As TheWrap reported Friday morning, The Weinstein Co.’s Dimension Films has been developing the project for years.
But on Friday, the story got an ending when a judge ordered the three men released from prison.
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Dimension acquired the rights to journalist Mara Leveritt's book “Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three” in 2006, and hired Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman to write the script.