Amanda Knox has accused Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy of “ripping off” her story and damaging her reputation in a new film.
Knox, 34, who was convicted and then acquitted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in 2007, has taken aim at upcoming movie Stillwater.
Director McCarthy has been open about the film being inspired by the case.
Rudy Guede was jailed for 16 years in 2008 for the murder in Perugia, Italy.
In an essay published on Medium, Knox said in the film, Damon’s imprisoned daughter, played by Abigail Breslin, is made to look guilty, asking the killer to “get rid” of the victim with whom she has a relationship.
The best-selling author wrote: “How do you think that impacts my reputation?
“I continue to be accused of ‘knowing something I’m not revealing’, of ‘having been involved somehow, even if I didn’t plunge the knife’. Tom McCarthy’s fictionalised version of me is just the tabloid conspiracy guiltier version of me.”
The American said the film made her like she was an “untrustworthy person” and a “media whore”.
She also accepted McCarthy, who won the best film Oscar for Spotlight, was under no obligation to consult her.
Since the film debuted at Cannes Film Festival this month it has earned mixed reviews.
Knox also asked whether she owned her name, face and story so long as people were making money from them.
She finished by inviting Damon and McCarthy onto her podcast Labyrinths for a conversation about “identity” and “public perception”.
