Colin Firth joins Reese Witherspoon West Memphis 3 movie, Devil's Knot (Perez Hilton)

We can't emphasize enough how please we are that such wonderful talents are getting involved in this very important story that must be told!

To recap - back in December, Reese Witherspoon signed on to star in Atom Egoyan's Devil's Knot, which follows the story of the West Memphis 3.

Reese will be playing the role of Pam Hobbs, the mother of one of the murder victims who is eventually persuaded that the 3 were wrongly accused.

Now, we've learned that Colin Firth has signed on to the film as well, and he'll be playing Ron Lax, "a private investigator who was the first pro bono supporter of the defendants as they headed to trial in 1993."



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Colin Firth to star as P.I. in "Devil's Knot" (Arkansas Times)

Posted by Max Brantley on Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:40 PM

• COLIN FIRTH: In West Memphis Three film.

'Tis a long way from the great houses of Britain to the trailer parks of West Memphis, Ark.

But get ready for an actor to make the transition. Colin Firth has been confirmed to play the role of Ron Lax, a private investigator, in "Devil's Knot," the movie treatment of Mara Leveritt's book on the West Memphis Three case. Lax, originally from Memphis, worked on the case for more than a decade and is credited with breakthroughs in the case, including DNA found in physical evidence linked to the stepfather of one of the three children slain in 1993. The search for DNA in evidence turned up none linked to the three men convicted of the crimes. A long way for Firth from Mr. Darcy and King George VI.

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