is it legal to call someone out in a movie?

[freepcrusher]

I have an idea for a movie. It basically involves a group of hispanic men in a prison camp who were framed by the law enforcement for cocaine. The movie is set in the present day in a desert town. They are sent to a jail where it is basically substandard conditions where they are forced to wear pink. The man in charge of the jail is a ruthless old man by the name Tom Loffredo. The group of hispanic men hate living there but they feel they have enough when one of the fellow men in the prison die from malnutrition. They then hatch a plan to assassinate Loffredo and succeed in doing so.

So they are being charged for first degree murder but they got a lot of help from the NAACP MALDEF LULAC La Raza etc. The defense lawyer is a charismatic young man (think of Matthew McConeghey's character in A Time to Kill) and the prosecutor is an old man similar to Dallas DA Henry Wade. The assassins are praised on DailyKos and other places but the prosecution is being praised by Fox News and other people who feel that "the law is being taken into their own hands". The jury decides to acquit the men and they are sent free and resume there lives.

Basically this movie is a cross between "A Time to Kill" and "Bonnie and Clyde". Could this movie be lawsuit for libel for calling someone out?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

If you kept it 100% factual, no.  If you changed anything, it'd probably open it up to a case, but it'd have to be a serious change for the case to have real traction.

[freepcrusher]

this wouldn't be a factual movie though. It would be a fictional movie.

[Stranger in a strange land]

He-who-is-obviously-being-discussed most likely wouldn't have grounds for a lawsuit, being a public figure and all, but I'd still stay away from Maricopa County.

[danny]

As long as you would put the disclaimer films always have that says that it's a fictional story and that any relation between events in the film and real life events is purely coincidental, than it would probably be OK.