Scarlett Johansson Starring in ‘Just Cause’ TV Series

The lure of hefty-pocketed streaming providers and status, usually limited-run TV sequence continues to attract huge title actors like moths to a flame.

And the most recent to flit across the shiny lights of the streaming world is Scarlett Johansson, who, according to Deadline, has signed to star in and produce a brand new sequence primarily based on 1995 thriller ‘Just Cause’.

If you’re blanking on the film, it adopted fictional Harvard regulation professor Paul Armstrong (Sean Connery), who’s enticed again to the courtroom from the halls of academia by the case of Bobby Earl Ferguson (Blair Underwood).

It’s all to do with the brutal kidnapping, rape and homicide in Ochopee, Florida, of eleven-year-old Joanie Shriver (Barbara Jean Kane). Ferguson is arrested by officers Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne) and J. T. Wilcox (Christopher Murray), who proceed to beat Bobby into confessing to the homicide. Eight years later, Ferguson is on demise row manages to contact Armstrong and convinces him to look into the case.

But at the same time as he digs up proof that would exonerate Bobby and level the finger of suspicion elsewhere, Paul discovers darkish truths in regards to the man he’s making an attempt to avoid wasting… truths that would put his household at risk.

And that household? In the film, his spouse Laurie is performed by Kate Capshaw, whereas his daughter Katie is dropped at the display by one Scarlett Johansson in her second ever film talking half. Everything outdated, because the saying goes, is new once more.

The present shouldn’t be, nevertheless, a continuation of the story, and Johansson is not going to be taking part in a now-grown Katie who has lengthy since adopted within the authorized footsteps of her father.

Instead, Christy Hall, who developed Netflix sequence ‘I Am Not Okay with This’, has written a brand new adaptation of John Katzenbach’s novel, the supply materials for the unique film, albeit nonetheless with a change to the principle character.

In the 1992 tome, the protagonist is Miami newspaper editorial author Matt Cowart, a struggling reporter for a Florida newspaper despatched to cowl the ultimate days of an inmate on demise row. With Johansson starring, the function has been switched to Madison “Madi” Cowart.

Johansson will produce through her These Pictures firm alongside Warner Bros. TV, whereas Amazon has snapped up the present for its Prime Video service.

The actor has not been a selected presence on TV outdoors of some internet hosting gigs on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and a recurring voice function on stop-motion animated sequence ‘Robot Chicken’.

She’s nonetheless busy with movie work, together with co-starring with Channing Tatum and producing spaced-themed drama ‘Project Artemis’. And she additionally lately labored on ‘My Mother’s Wedding’ and Wes Anderson’s subsequent film, ‘Asteroid City’, which options Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe, Steve Carell, Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston and extra amongst its sprawling ensemble.