George Clooney Buys Book Rights
George Clooney is buying the rights to John Grisham’s novel, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. Clooney and his camp has declined to give any details so at the moment no much is known besides the fact that no lines have been written yet. There is also no word on whether or not Clooney will act in, direct or both.
“The Innocent Man” is a nonfiction work about Ron Williamson, who spent nine years on Oklahoma’s death row after he was wrongfully convicted of the 1982 rape and murder of a cocktail waitress. Another man, Dennis Fritz, was sentenced to life in prison. Retesting of the semen and hair follicles used in the original case freed the men in 1999 and pointed to Glen D. Gore, who had testified against Williamson. Gore later was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.