Actress Kate Beckinsale was spotted in Rome while she was trying to get into her new role as a journalist in a film based on a book about Amanda Knox.

Beckinsale has been photographed with the author of Amanda's book Barbie Latza Nadeau, with whom she is reportedly talking in order to fit into the role of a journalist who investigates the murder of Meredith Kercher.

In 2007, Nadeau covered the case against Amanda Knox, who was found guilty of the brutal murder of the British student Kercher.

The film "The Face Of An Angel" is directed by Michael Winterbottom with Daniel Bruhl and supermodel Cara Delevigne as main characters. The film is due to start next month and released in 2014.

The book "Angel Face: Sex, Murder and The Inside Story of Amanda Knox" written by Barbie Latza Nadeau, tells the story of an American woman who, in 2009, was convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy.