Amanda Knox Trial Case Latest News: 'The Face of an Angel' Movie Could Send Me Back to Jail – Amanda Knox

Amanda Knox – the 27-year-old American woman accused of the murder of a British student in Italy – is back in the news again as her lawyers have threatened legal action over a new movie that apparently portrays her alleged role in the killing.

The movie "The Face of an Angel" is based on the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, the roomate of Knox who was then completing her student exchange program in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.

The case has been the subject of intense worldwide media interest as Knox continues to insist that she is innocent of the crime. Her first guilty verdict was widely seen in the United States as flawed.

Knox spent nearly four years in prison before winning her appeal and returned to the US in October 2011. The prosecution then appealed to the Italian Supreme Court, which ordered a re-trial of the case. Last Jan. 30, the court convicted her of the same crime and sentenced her to 28 years in prison.

Knox has appealed once again and remains free pending the court's final verdict. In Italy a guilty verdict in a serious case is not regarded as a definitive conviction until the accused has exhausted the appeals process.

Knox's lawyers said the new movie, which stars Kate Beckinsale and model Cara Delevingne and is produced by BBC Films, could adversely affect Knox's appeal.

"It implies that Amanda is guilty," Knox's lawyer Luciano Ghirga said, adding that the showing of the film could lead to Knox's possible conviction.

"There have already been at least two films and 12 books about the case. If the film is based even loosely on the murder in Perugia and if it is damaging to Amanda's image, we will be asking for damages, as we have done in other cases," Ghirga warned.

However, a CNN report said the novel "Angel Face" from which the movie was based has nothing to do with the Knox murder trial case. For this reason, the author of the book, Barbie Latza Nadeau, says she does not worry if Knox decides to file a case against her.

Likewise, Tom Kingston, a movie reviewer from The Guardian newspaper, says the film does not focus on the murder of Kercher in 2007 but on "the journalists who covered the case, who chased lawyers down the medieval alleys of the town, who waded through reams of court documents written in punctuation-free legalese and gleefully pounced on the sex life of suspect Amanda Knox."