An appearance at the Toronto Film Festival can sometimes mean big things for a film that heads into the fest without a distributor. Especially films that are hotly anticipated and are stacked with as much talent as Devil’s Knot is for example.
Directed by Atom Egoyan and starring Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Kevin Durand, Bruce Greenwood, Mireille Enos, Dane DeHaan and Stephen Moyer, this film based on the story of the West Memphis Three will certainly be one to watch out for.
Telling the story of the infamous killing of three children in a small Arkansas town, a story that has been told over the last several years in documentaries such as 2012’s West of Memphis and the Oscar-nominated Paradise Lost. The police charge and convict three teens, aka the West Memphis Three, for committing the murders during an alleged satanic ritual, but a mother and investigator suspect that the truth may be even worse.
Firth plays private investigator Ron Lax and Witherspoon plays Pam Hobbs, the mother of one of the murdered children.
As I said, this one is going into the festival without a domestic distributor. Will someone pick it up and will we see it in the Oscar race this year?
You can check out the complete 2013 Toronto Film Festival lineup right here and it will be updating with more films over the next week or so.
