“He pounded my skull into the brick,” she wrote later. One evening while walking through a park at night, she was violently raped and beaten by a young man around her age. Jonathan Bronfman of JoBro Productions was executive producer on the film, but Variety has confirmed that he is no longer attached to the project.In 1981, Alice Sebold was 18 and a first-year college student in Syracuse, New York. Karen Moncreiff (“13 Reasons Why”) was set to write and direct “Lucky,” with James Brown (“ Still Alice”) producing. She went on to write the 2002 novel “The Lovely Bones,” which sold 10 million copies and was adapted into Peter Jackson’s Oscar-nominated film of the same name.

“Lucky,” which sold over 1 million copies, kicked off her career as an author. “I started having some doubts, not about the story that Alice told about her assault, which was tragic, but the second part of her book about the trial, which didn’t hang together,” Mucciante told the Times. Broadwater and the man next to him were friends who had purposely appeared in the lineup together to trick her,” the New York Times reports. Sebold had initially identified a different man as her attacker in a police lineup but later pointed to Broadwater in court after the “prosecutor falsely told Ms. The result of the private investigation was then taken up by Broadwater’s legal team.īroadwater’s defense lawyers argued that the case had relied solely on a method of microscopic hair analysis that has now been discredited, and on Sebold’s identification of Broadwater in court.

Mucciante left the project in June and hired a private investigator to examine the evidence against Broadwater.

Mucciante “began to question the story that the movie was based on earlier this year, after he noticed discrepancies between the memoir and the script,” according to The New York Times. Mucciante, who was an executive producer on “Lucky” and was meant to provide the film’s financing via his banner Red Badge Films, played a crucial role in getting Broadwater’s conviction re-examined. On Wednesday, a New York Times article detailed how executive producer Timothy Mucciante raised concerns about the events in the book and left the project. Since then, he has continued claiming his innocence while facing decades of stigma, isolation and missed job opportunities as a registered sex offender. Broadwater spent 16 years in prison and was released in 1998.

Uma Vida Interrompida by Alice Sebold