Amicus Movie Updates

Sun., Sep. 30, 2012

from Variety

Kelly, Cage Team for True Crime Tale

Writer-director Richard Kelly has lined up his next movie, a true-crime thriller titled Amicus that will star Nicolas Cage as Rodney Smolla, one of the most influential First Amendment scholars of the past two decades.

• added Ted Hamm as Executive Producer to the credits
• added Will Kopelman as Executive Producer to the credits
• added Darko Entertainment as a production company
• added crime as genre
• added Nicolas Cage as Rodney Smolla to the credits
• changed the production status to Development
• added Richard Kelly as Director to the credits
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• Lawrence Horn, a former record producer and Motown Records executive, is sentenced to life in prison for hiring Detroit-based hit man James Perry to murder his wife, quadriplegic son and the wealthy family's overnight nurse at their suburban home in ... show all Silver Spring, Maryland. Horn's son is the victim of medical malpractice and as the result of a subsequent lawsuit, has a trust worth nearly $2 million, which his father stands to inherit in the wake of his death. Detectives discovers that Perry used how-to book "Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors" as a guide to execute the murders. The families of the victims go on to file a class-action lawsuit against the Colorado-based publisher Paladin Press. The attorneys representing the families then hire Rodney Smolla, a First Amendment attorney and professor at William & Mary Law School, to consult on the historic case, which takes five years to settle amidst a series of shocking and bizarre developments.

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