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Hunter S. Thompson work eyed for film

One of Hunter S. Thompson's last works has been picked up for feature treatment that could see Thompson onscreen again, this time as a crusader for justice.

Motion Picture Corporation of America, led by CEO Brad Krevoy, has acquired rights to "Prisoner of Denver," a June 2004 Vanity Fair article co-written by Thompson and the magazine's contributing editor Mark Seal.

"Prisoner" focused on the injustice and abuse of Colorado's legal system that saw 21-year-old Lisl Auman charged with murder when the crime occurred while she was in the back of a patrol car, already in police custody. She was handed a life sentence with no possibility of parole.

While behind bars, she began a correspondence with Thompson. His unrelenting grass-roots activism -- which included enlisting celebrity pals including Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro and Woody Harrelson -- and the Vanity Fair piece helped overturn Auman's sentence in 2005.

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Thompson committed suicide before the case was overturned.

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