West End Films has announced that Freddie Highmore and Maisie Williams have signed on to star in a film adaptation of the nonfiction crime novel “Joyce McKinney and the Case of the Manacled Mormon” by Anthony Delano about the real-life story of “an American ex-beauty queen who was accused of kidnapping and raping a Mormon missionary in England”. The film will be titled Sinner V. Saints and will be directed by Tim Kirkby.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Highmore is best known for playing Charlie Bucket in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Norman Bates in Bates Motel. He also is currently starring in the ABC medical drama The Good Doctor. Williams is best known for starring as Araya Stark in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones and films like The New Mutants and The Book of Love.
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