Scarlett Johansson will star in and executive produce Just Cause, a limited series at Amazon’s Prime Video that is based on a 1992 novel by John Katzenbach. Amazon has given a straight to series order for the project from Warner Bros. TV and writer Christy Hall.
The novel has previously been adapted for a 1995 feature film that starred Sean Connery, Johansson played the daughter of Connery’s character. The series will be centered on Madison “Madi” Cowart (Johansson), a reporter for a Florida newspaper who is assigned to cover the final days of a death row inmate and starts to believe the prisoner’s claims of innocence.
Hall and Johansson and These Pictures’ Jonathon Lia and Keenan Flynn will executive produce the series. These Pictures head of television Zara Duff will oversee the project. Johansson is repped by CAA and Yorn Levine, while Hall is repped by CAA, Grandview and attorney Miles Metcoff.
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