Mucciante has also received numerous questions about a possible narrative film focusing on the wrongful conviction, including from Jersey Legends, the production firm of former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal. Through his own production company, Red Badge Films, he is making a documentary dubbed Unlucky where Broadwater is now the protagonist Sebold, as of yet, is not involved.

Newsweek has learned that not only is a lawsuit for wrongful conviction being readied against the state of New York, but Mucciante, who was fired from the Lucky adaptation about five months ago, is pivoting. The film was recently canceled when Broadwater-who served more than 16 years in prison for rape, sodomy and other crimes that night, then lived largely as a pariah given his public status as a registered sex offender since his release in 1999-was officially exonerated last month, innocent of the crimes he was convicted of, according to Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick and a New York court. In real life, the man she identified was Anthony Broadwater. Sebold, lauded for encouraging rape victims to report their attackers and deal with the post-traumatic stress disorder that often follows, would be the protagonist, while the villain in the story would be the man Sebold swore in court was her rapist, a man called 'Gregory Madison' in the book. JoBro Productions was planning to adapt the book, starring Victoria Pedretti as Sebold with Karen Moncrieff directing and Timothy Mucciante as executive producer. One of Sebold's best-selling books, The Lovely Bones, was turned into a movie by A-list director Peter Jackson in 2009, so it seemed only a matter of time before Lucky would get the film treatment as well. What happened to Sebold, now an acclaimed author of multiple bestsellers, is not in dispute, and she describes her rape in graphic detail in her 1999 autobiography, Lucky, the title coming from a cop who said she was lucky to have survived the assault. He laughed and demanded she strip naked, then he pulled her hair back and forced her to kiss him repeatedly before raping her. She offered to give her attacker all of her money and her mom's and her sister's credit cards if he'd leave her be. 'I'll kill you if you scream,' the man told her. On May 8, 1981, while Syracuse University student Alice Sebold walked near her dormitory she was approached from behind by a stranger who covered her mouth and knocked her to the ground.

Uma Vida Interrompida by Alice Sebold