14 DAY TRIAL // The murder trial that fascinated and shocked a world, which saw O.J. Simpson stand accused of the murder of his wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, is being turned into a TV movie.
With more and more similar projects hitting the market (Phil Spector and Casey Anthony’s stories have already been made into film), it’s almost a wonder it took a network so long to scoop up the rights to Simpson’s trial story.
“The drama will be based on Jeffrey Toobin's 1997 book The Run of His Life: The People vs O.J. Simpson, and will focus on the infamous low-speed car chase Simpson led police on throughout Los Angeles, as well as the courtroom drama itself, which ended in his acquittal,” WENN reports.
“Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the writing team behind another famed courtroom classic, The People vs. Larry Flynt, will pen the project,” adds the same media outlet.
O.J. Simpson is now serving time behind bars for kidnapping and armed robbery, but he always maintained his innocence in the murder of the two. Useless to say, not everybody believed him, which is why this new film is bound to cause a storm.
Above is a video of the sentencing at the trial, when Simpson was acquitted, just in case you’re not familiar with the case.