Jodi Arias TV Movie Headed for Lifetime

Jodi Arias TV Movie Headed for Lifetime
Leaked script reveals plans for movie about the murder trial in Arizona.




Transcript for Jodi Arias TV Movie Headed for Lifetime

The verdict is still weeks away about a -- script reveals a made for TV movie is in the works based on an Arizona woman accused of -- brutal murder. TV guide says the lifetime network is producing a -- on this scandalous sex -- -- area Strauss. Going on right now in Phoenix.
In 2008 cops found Travis Alexander shot in the head with his throat slit and 29 stab wounds. Prosecutors say she slaughtered him in a jealous range but -- -- story keeps changing. She first said she had nothing to do with it.

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I hope they don't air this before the end of the trial. There's way too much info out there already from HLN to give more ideas to the defense.

Even if they started filming now I would think they would have to have an ending to the story before they FINISH filming.
I bet the defense is watching and reading at HLN everyday to see what they might be up against the next day. LOL

Didn't they run that made for TV movie about TLMS before her trial ended? Stupid media needs to back off. LOL.

I just hope all these defense lawyers don't give Nurmi and Wilmott any new ideas. At least we get Juan tomorrow morning, until the defense's next expert is up.

No, they just ran that movie a few months ago.

I agree w/BJ..bet they watch every night thinking of new ways to plot their defense. Wonder if Samuels watches and see's how everyone thinks he's a quack.

I HOPE Samuels watches every single night so he knows what everyone thinks of him!!!!!

How could he NOT watch? Yet, he drones on. I think he knows he is lying and doesn't care because he's being paid $250 an hour to lie. MOO.

This is sickening, seems as if this actress thinks this is "just a typical love story".

I agree, BJ!!

JUNE 8, 2013BY: TRACIY CURRY-REYES

Will air June 22
Credits: Lifetime

Sources close to the case are reporting today that friends and family of Travis Alexander are not happy about the upcoming Lifetime Jodi Arias movie based on his murder. "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" stars Tania Raymonde and Jesse Lee Soffer.

Jodi Arias is still awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of the murder of her lover Travis Alexander.

Suffering almost 30 stab wounds and a gunshot wound to the head, Travis Alexander was brutally murdered in the shower of his home in Arizona after a night of sex with his girlfriend Jodi Arias. He was taken completely by surprise as the defensive wounds show. The murder happened in 2008.

Several viewers took to the Lifetime Movie Network page to express their outrage over the making of the Jodi Arias true crime drama:

"Disgusted that this channel is going to make money on a movie of a convicted murderer... What about the Alexander family? What's wrong with you people? Anything for money... Will not watch your channel anymore and I suggest any other person with a heart won't either!" "I am very disappointed that you are choosing to give time to Jodi Arias. You are only helping to inflate her demented version of ego." "I want to write that I am sick that this channel that I have loved is about to air a movie on the Jodie Arias murder when the Alexander Family is still is such a horribly sad state...The trial is not even over yet and you have the nerve to give this murderer all the attention she wants" "I noticed that there are a lot of comments about objecting to the movie you plan to show anyway...I'm disgusted that the administrator of this fb page doesn't even have the courtesy to respond to the viewer's concerns about the content, title, story line & timing of airing such a sub par production"

But it looks like Lifetime movie viewers are not pleased with a lot of true story movies. There was also some outrage over the Anna Nicole Smith story.

Lifetime Television is doing something right their viewership suggests that they are among the most watched channels on cable."

The Movies Based On True Stories Database/Archives has been tracking Lifetime movies based on true stories since the 1990s.

For every viewer who protests, you have Lifetime movie and Movies Based On True Database supporters who are just as adamant that the movie should move forward.

Lifetime movies based on true cases are beneficial because the movies allow the people to see exactly how some predators function and how one can protect themselves. Many people have used Lifetime movies to teach their own children the pitfalls of trusting the wrong people. On another note, if you are interested in having a movie made based on your life don't think of submitting it through their website. Here is how Lifetime Television suggests you proceed:

"It is the policy of Lifetime not to accept or review any unsolicited material received from individuals who are not represented by agents or attorneys known to Lifetime or from production companies Lifetime is not familiar with. As we are certain you can appreciate, the policy exists to protect both you and Lifetime."

"Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" is set to air on Lifetime on Saturday, June 22.

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It's not right that they are airing this movie before her sentencing phase is complete. It's just going to prejudice more possible future jurors out there, and it sounds like the movie is told more to defend Stabby than to present Travis's or his siblings side of things.

As far as shackles I wish they would have kept them on her hands so she couldn't sit and doodle all day. I was so hoping when she stood up and showed Travis's tackle position that she'd trip over her leg chains and fall over. hehe.

That dumb movie is on Lifetime tonight for whoever wants to watch it. Not me!

I'm watching it.  Kick my a$$ after you    if you want to Raine.

I missed the first showing, but am now watching the 11 show now in Lifetime. (Channel 108 on DISH.) I hadn't planned to watch, but saw some people saying it was actually a good movie because they portrayed Stabby as a psycho slut, and Travis as his sweet self. It's pretty good so far.

I watched it. Thought it was a good movie. I dont think it was very real to life IMO. If she had acted like that from the beggining I dont think it would have ever got as far as it did. I think Travis was too smart to fall for someone that was the way the movie portrayed  her to be from the beginning. I personally think she was more laid back in real life  or Travis would have ran the other way.

I agree, Slys, she was much more stealthy. I'm still amazed it was so good and they actually managed to make her look even worse than she was. LOL. I hope the next jurors all got to see it. 

I don't know, maybe I'll watch it. I just hate to think Hodi thinks she's such a celebrity that she has an actress playing her.... It wasn't on today so maybe another day.

It will be on tonight at 8PM EST.

I thought the movie was pretty good although a lot was 'assumed'. For example, they portrayed  and Travis having vaginal intercouse from the get go..they made it look like Travis had no clue she had moved to Mesa. 

The majority of the movie was ABOUT THEIR SEX LIFE. They REALLY played that up. 

Tania Raymonde was spectacular as Jodi Arias. She is MUCH better looking than Hodi. MUCH. I was completely drawn in with her acting. Jesse Lee Soffer as Travis was OK..however, I felt Travis was much better looking. Soffer did NOT have the build Travis had. 

Like any 'made for TV movie', a lot was assumed in the day to day communications of the two actors ~ OTHER than the text messages and the 'sex tape'. I DID like them showing her stalking him and getting into his cell and computer and the infamous 'tire stabbing'.

I loved the grandmother..wonder if she really said those things to Jodi. Loved the Chris and Sky Hughes actors..loved 'the talk' they had w/Travis and how Jodi appeared..although in 'real life', Sky states they were INSIDE in a closed door room and indicated she could feel Jodi's presence listening at the door. Loved the actor who warned him countless times to call the police.

We will never know if Travis KNEW Jodi was coming to see kill him that fateful night. But, I felt that the way they portrayed Travis as all accepting of her just showing up at 4AM and asking her to stay was ridiculous..this, after he made it perfectly clear to her on several occasions he was DONE with her; in particular..in the park.

The stabbing/throat slitting/gun shot scenes were riveting. (And SAD!) Very well done.

They portrayed Hodi as someone who was quite happy that day and then picked up Travis' cell while he's showering..and started texting "Marie" that he was "back with Jodi". "Marie" texts back and says "you said you only wanted her for one thing"(paraphrasing) and THAT was what allegedly put :STABBY:over the edge. Again, we will NEVER know but I believe he told her (after their sexfest) that "he was STILL taking 'Marie aka Mimi' to Cancun" (Lifetime portrayed him going to Hawaii) and that was the final blow for her.

The trial scenes were kind of funny to me in that Wilmont's character was FUGLY, and Martinez' character looked NOTHING like him.

Lifetime had made an earlier statement they were going to leave their audience hanging with the ending reference guilty or not guitly. They did not.

All in all, as TV movies go..this one was pretty good. I'll rate it a 7. ONLY because they never showed her renting a car or going to WalMart for the 3rd gas can. I wanted them to show more premeditation.

I have two questions about the movie.  
Did Jodi really paste pictures all over Travis's mirror and did Jodi really respond to text messages from girls on Travis's phone?  I don't remember either discussed during the trial.  Anyone know??

Lifetime's Jodi Arias Film Unearths No Secrets But Is Fine Entertainment: Review
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
06/22/2013 at 05:00 PM EDT

Jodi Arias Lifetime Movie: Dirty Little Secret Review

from left: Jodi Arias and Tania Raymonde, who plays Arias in Lifetime's Dirty Little Secret

PEOPLE MAGAZINE

She doesn't boil a pet bunny. But Jodi Arias displays wicked knife technique in a new Lifetime movie that could have just as well been titled, Fatal Attraction for Cable News.

Premiering Saturday at 8 p.m. EDT, Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret is a ripped-from-cable-news saga of a woman scorned who last month was found guilty of killing her former lover, motivational speaker Travis Alexander. On June 4, 2008, Arias stabbed and slashed him nearly 30 times, slit his throat and shot him in the head in what prosecutors said was jealous rage, and what Arias unpersuasively argued was self-defense, when, according to her, he attacked her.

But you know all that.

Dirty Little Secret unearths no secrets, dirty or otherwise. Every sordid detail, it seems, has been trumpeted for years by the media, then recycled for months during Arias' trial in Phoenix that got blanket coverage on TV and in particular on cable's HLN, vaulting that network to record ratings.

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Now comes the inevitable made-for-TV film. Portraying what led up to the crime, it's tucked handily between the May verdict for the murder trial and the July retrial in the life-or-death-penalty phase.

The big surprise: Dirty Little Secret is a pretty good film. It's a draw-you-in, sudsy melodrama stocked with guilty pleasures: romance, sex, obsession, betrayal and vengeance.

Tania Raymonde (perhaps best remembered as Alex Rousseau on Lost) is swell as Jodi, with a remarkable likeness to this sexy, young woman no man could resist, at least not Travis as he fought a losing battle with his Mormon principles to feast on this forbidden fruit.

Or, to use a metaphor straight from the film, forbidden coffee – which, as Travis explains to Jodi early on, he shuns as a Mormon because of its addictive properties.

"I'm like coffee," Jodi teases him.

"Very strong coffee," he agrees as he submits again.

Jesse Lee Soffer (Jordana Spiro's jammed-up brother on last season's short-lived The Mob Doctor) makes a fine Travis – glib, blandly wholesome and all too relatable in his mission to have it both ways, relationship-wise: treating Jodi as a red-hot plaything while he nurtures a "suitable" wife-worthy prospect.

Trouble arises, of course, as love-struck Jodi bridles at the strictly recreational role she plays in Travis' life. Even joining the Mormon church can't earn her an upgrade from her booty-call status.

Travis argues that he never promised more. When Jodi was gazing into his eyes, he tells her, "You saw lust. You saw weakness. But you didn't see love. It was never there."

So, for a time, Travis thrives as a satisfied two-timer, while Jodi is increasingly desperate to please.

"I just want to be the girl that he wants," she tells a chum.

Then she snaps.

Dirty Little Secret charts a step-by-step, we-all-know-where-this-is-headed run-up to her grisly payback, a scene lyrically staged as a slow-motion massacre to give the audience equal doses of horror and dramatic catharsis after having witnessed Travis push her past the breaking point.

Well done. It's dandy entertainment.

Mind you, such an assessment of this film and its doomsday narrative is meant in no way to trivialize the real-life tragedy of Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander.

But Dirty Little Secret is a step up from the reality-TV treatment the case has gotten with its more excessive coverage. The film also serves as a refreshing alternative for telling the tale, dramatized for maximum titillation while, in its tidy, two-hour package, efficiently stripping away the wretched excess.

An oddly respectable bit of fluff, this film would never be mistaken for art, which typically explores something larger than itself. But there's a lesson to be learned here nonetheless for anyone who looks beyond the tawdriness: If a lover seems too good to be true, he or she probably is. So watch your step.

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Nama wrote:I have two questions about the movie.  
Did Jodi really paste pictures all over Travis's mirror and did Jodi really respond to text messages from girls on Travis's phone?  I don't remember either discussed during the trial.  Anyone know??

Nothing was EVER said about her pasting pics all over TA's wall but YES, it was brought up by Mimi and Martinez that she got into his text messages and LaViolette also stated Jodi had told her about that. And, IIRC..even Jodi herself admitted to getting into his emails/MySpace, etc..but stated HE gave HER the password. She also admitted she was reading his text messages but NOT sure she admitted to replying to His texts.

Would have loved for them to portray her crawling through the doggie door and hiding behind the Christmas tree..

And, what about Napoleon? Didn't show him much.

I didn't care for the actors who played Martinez or Flores. Martinez had so much more fire than this actor, and they seemed to play Flores as some doofus with a bad accent. I totally bought into the actress playing Stabby though, even though she was prettier than Stabby. The stabbing scenes were very realistic, although I thought there would be more screaming from the guy playing Travis. I'm just so happy the movie wasn't slanted in her favor.

You should watch it, Raine. I was determined not to and now I'm glad I did.

You all were right, I watched it last night. The actress for:STABBY:  did a very good job I thought! Was NOT thrilled with the Martinez or Flores actors like you all said!! The actor who played Travis was so so but OK. Yes it was a good movie.