Amanda Knox criticises the film 'Stillwater' for exploiting her case.

Amanda Knox criticizes the film 'Stillwater' for exploiting her case.

Amanda Knox has spoken out against her name being linked to the new film "Stillwater," claiming that any association robs "my narrative without my consent at the price of my reputation."

Matt Damon plays a father who travels to France to rescue his estranged daughter, Allison, portrayed by Abigail Breslin. She was convicted and imprisoned for the murder of her girlfriend in Marseille, in a case that made national news. Knox is never identified on screen, but the directors have stated in interviews that her spectacular story served as an inspiration for the writing.

Knox called out numerous newspapers and filmmaker Tom McCarthy in tweets and an article on the website Medium for using her name to promote the movie. She wrote that his “fictionalized version of me is just the tabloid conspiracy guiltier version of me.” 

“Does my name really belong to me? Does it apply to my face? What about my personal life? What is the plot of my story? Why is my name being used to allude to events in which I had no involvement? “I return to these questions because others continue to profit without my permission off my name, face, and story,” she wrote.

Knox made international news after the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. Knox and Knox's then-boyfriend were both investigated. Both were convicted at first, but after a series of reversals, Italy's highest court overturned the convictions in 2015. For the murder, an unrelated guy is receiving a 16-year term.

“By eliminating the participation of the authorities in my unjust conviction, McCarthy supports a picture of me as a criminal and untrustworthy person,” Knox wrote.

McCarthy said Knox's case served as an "initial inspiration point but not much beyond that" at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month, when "Stillwater" was screened. I had just had a kid at the time, and I was wondering how it would be.”

Breslin told The Associated Press that she "didn't want to kind of imitate or mimic" Knox's legal struggle in an interview to promote "Stillwater." “It's somewhat inspired by that case, so I didn't want to attempt to recreate it. I want Allison to kind of be her own stand-alone character, but it was definitely great to have that for a reference.”

Many reviews and feature pieces on “Stillwater,” including The Associated Press, have cited Knox as an influence for the narrative. The film will be released on Friday. Focus Features, the film's distributor, did not immediately reply to inquiries on Friday.