Scarlett Johansson will take on her first lead role in a TV series – while revisiting the first role of her career.
Johnson will star and executive produce Just Cause, which is Amazon Limited series on Prime Video*) Based on the novel by John Katzenbach. The anchor placed a series order directly with the project from Warner Bros. Television and writer Christy Hall (I’m not happy with it).
The novel was adapted into a 1992 feature film starring Sean Connery. Johnson played Connery’s character’s daughter in one of her first film roles.
The series version of Just Cause will center on Madison “Madi” Cowart (Johansson), a reporter from Florida Assigned to cover the final days of a death-row inmate at a newspaper in the United States, he begins to believe the inmate’s claim of innocence.
These image banners for Johnson were produced by Warner Bros. Television. Hall will executive produce alongside Johansson and These Pictures’ Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn. The company’s head of television, Zara Duff, will oversee the project.
Johansson is currently filming for director Project Artemis Greg Berlanti and Apple TV+. The two-time Oscar nominee also stars Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City and Kristin Scott Thomas My mother’s wedding was on deck and ended with her black widow
with 2021 A run through the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She is represented by CAA and Yorn Levine.
Hall was represented by CAA, Grandview and attorneys Miles Metcoff.
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