Trial by Fire (2018 film)
At his trial, the prosecutor, John Jackson, reveals the fire had been caused deliberately with gasoline spread in the shape of a pentagram and the refrigerator moved to block the kitchen door.During his time on death row, Willingham is violently beaten and threatened by both the inmates and then the guards before ultimately being placed in solitary confinement, where he breaks down, all while protesting his innocence and having flashbacks to his life with Stacy.Willingham reaches out to a new lawyer, Reaves, in the hope of proving his innocence while adapting to his life in prison by submitting to the particularly violent guard Daniels and befriending fellow inmate, Ponchai James.Gilbert suffers a car crash as Willingham is taken to be executed, causing her to be absent as he delivers a poignant speech that shows the improvements he has made while on death row and requests his ashes be spread over his daughters' graves.On August 8, 2017, it was announced that Jack O'Connell and Laura Dern would star in an adaptation of the article "Trial by Fire" by American journalist David Grann, with Edward Zwick directing.The website's critical consensus reads, "Trial by Fire has a worthy and heartbreaking story to tell, but this well-acted dramatization is undermined by its aggressive manipulative approach.