<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section does not cite any sources . Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Several changes were made in adapting the film from the book . Many unused characters were eliminated or combined into composite ones . John Kelso was based upon Berendt . The multiple trials were combined into one on - screen trial . Williams' real life attorney, Sonny Seiler, played Judge White, the presiding judge of the trial . Advertising for the film became a source of controversy when Warner Bros. used elements of Jack Leigh's famous photograph in the posters without permission . </P> <P> Principal photography began in spring 1997 in Savannah, Georgia, where the entire film was shot . Several scenes were filmed in and around Monterey Square . Jim Williams' Mercer House is located on the southwestern end of the square, at 429 Bull Street . John Kelso stays at the Italianate Comer House at 2 East Taylor Street, on the square's northeastern side; however, the shots from his windows were filmed at 120 East Jones Street, across from 115, which doubled as Joe Odom's house . (Odom's real house, constructed by Eliza Jewett in 1847, was at 16 East Jones .) Kelso's six - month rental, shown at the end of the film, is 218 West Jones Street, which is now valued at over $1.2 million . </P> <P> The scenes at Williams' attorney Sonny Seiler's offices were filmed at the Armstrong House, 447 Bull Street, south of Monterey Square and close to the northern edge of Forsyth Park . As of March 2017, Seiler still practises there . </P>

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