EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has set Michelle Dean to pen Stolen Time, its biopic telling the incredible true story of wrongfully convicted death row inmate Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs.
Juliet Blake is producing. Blake is Head of Television at TED and previously produced The Hundred-Foot Journey with Amblin. Amblin Partners’ President of Production Holly Bario, will oversee on behalf of the studio.The studio recently acquired the film rights to the riveting and timely story of Jacobs, who was in her 20’s when she and her husband, Jesse Tafero, were convicted of the fatal shooting of two law enforcement officers based on the false testimony of the man who actually committed the murders.
Read more on deadline.com