{"id":20126,"date":"2025-06-27T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20126\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:48:09","slug":"karen-read-inks-deal-to-develop-screen-adaptation-of-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20126\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Read Inks Deal to Develop Screen Adaptation of Murder Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA scripted adaptation of the Karen Read<\/a> murder case, which ended in a recent acquittal, is in the works.<\/p>\n

\n\tLBI Productions is partnering with Read and her lead defense attorney, Alan Jackson, to develop a scripted project chronicling the case that ignited national media attention. The project promises details of the Read story not yet disclosed to the public, the producers said. CAA is representing the film and TV rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn June 18, a jury found\u00a0Karen Read\u00a0not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O\u2019Keefe. The same jury also found her guilty of a lesser charge of drunken driving after 22 hours of deliberations. A first Karen Read trial had previously ended in a mistrial.<\/p>\n

\n\tRead\u2019s lawyers during the trials argued she was framed by the police after dropping O\u2019Keefe off at a party in the home of a fellow police officer. Prosecutors argued a drunk Read hit O\u2019Keefe with her SUV car before driving off, but the defense countered O\u2019Keefe was murdered inside the home and later placed outside on the front lawn. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve lived in this town with John. I saw what it takes for a small group of powerful people to be \u2018above the law.\u2019\u00a0I struggled for over three years to overcome this power and corruption, eliciting help from tens of private investigators, multiple attorneys, and eventually \u2014 the federal government. It was ultimately a groundswell of local residents and a grassroots campaign that afforded me the resources I needed to fight back,\u201d Read said in a statement on Friday about her successful defense during two trials.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith exclusive access to both Read and Jackson, the upcoming project is expected to look behind the prosecution, the defense\u2019s counter-investigation and the cultural debate that surrounded the case.<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of the second trial for Read, there were dueling TV docuseries from Investigation Discovery, Netflix and others to explore whether Read reversed her SUV over boyfriend O\u2019Keefe or was framed to protect fellow Boston police officers involved in his death.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a legal thriller. It\u2019s about what happens when a single voice refuses to be silenced. Karen\u2019s case reflects the complicated moment in time in which we live.\u00a0We will have an opportunity to show layers that have never been brought to light, and we are committed to telling the story with urgency, nuance, and care,\u201d LBI production head Julie Yorn added in another statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlex Kohner of Yorn Levine handled negotiations Read and Jackson. Jared Levine of Yorn Levine acted for LBI Productions. LBI Entertainment<\/a> has production credits that include Killers of the Flower Moon and Hell or High Water.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlans are also underway for a book project with the participation of Read and Jackson. The publishing rights are being shopped by literary agent Luke Janklow of Janklow & Nesbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scripted adaptation of the Karen Read murder case, which ended in a recent acquittal, is in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,1904,18795,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-20126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-karen-read","10":"tag-lbi-entertainment","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114757534050226214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}