Kate Beckinsale cast in Amanda Knox film It's certainly not a judgment of innocence or guilt - it's about the people who created the circus. But in March this year the Supreme Court in Rome ordered a second appeal trial, which began in Florence last month and is due to resume on Nov 6. The film, which will be called "The Face of an Angel," will be directed by Michael Winterbottom, whose films include Welcome to Sarajevo and 24 Hour Party People. It is due to start filming next month in Rome and Siena in Tuscany - not far from Perugia, the Umbrian hill town where the 21-year-old Miss Kercher was found murdered in Nov 2007. Daniel Bruhl (AP) The fictional journalist, Simone Ford, is approached by a once-successful but now struggling British film-maker who wants to make a film about the case. The film-maker has recently separated from his wife in a bitter divorce and left his nine-year-old daughter in Los Angeles. He will be played by Daniel Bruhl, the German actor, who portrayed the Formula One driver Niki Lauda in the recent film Rush. The unravelling of the director's personal life, and his involvement in the murder, "drag him down into his own personal hell ... like Dante journeying through the Inferno in the Divine Comedy," according to the official synopsis of the film. Cara Delevingne (Reuters) He begins a relationship with a student, played by the British model and actress Cara Delevingne, 21. As he tries to uncover the truth behind the murder, he becomes "swept up in the media feeding frenzy around the enigmatic lead suspect. "He sees that the victim has been forgotten, and realises that his own salvation lies in returning to the daughter he has left behind," according to the synopsis.