Richard Kelly and Nicolas Cage are joining forces for a true crime courtroom drama called Amicus. Variety has the news, saying that Kelly will write and direct with Cage playing Rodney A. Smolla, a First Amendment attorney who seemingly went up his personal and professional principles in a complicated lawsuit related to multiple homicide.
Smolla himself wrote about the case in 1999’s “Deliberate Intent: A Lawyer Tells the True Story of Murder by the Book.”
