My documentary, though it focuses primarily on Spector’s music, intentionally leaves the audience with the impression the prosecution did not make its case, and that the jury’s announcement that they were hopelessly split in the third week of deliberations was an appropriate result: a hung jury. What I didn’t go into was my very strong sense that Spector’s team of lawyers wasn’t being allowed to make their own case: that a suicidally depressed and desperately struggling actress had shot herself, using one of Spector’s guns. To my layman’s eyes, as I watched potentially exculpatory evidence being blocked from entering the record, I didn’t feel Spector was getting a fair trial.
The idea of an awful, flawed man being railroaded for a crime he may not have committed plays to so many of David Mamet’s central obsessions. His movie,Phil Spector, inspired by my documentary and starring Al Pacino as Phil Spector and Helen Mirren as his defense lawyer, Linda Kenney Baden, comes out the last week of March.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/03/18/phil-spector-s-last-chance.html
