{"id":142473,"date":"2022-11-29T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amazon-nabs-scarlett-johansson-for-just-cause-series-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:09:00","slug":"amazon-nabs-scarlett-johansson-for-just-cause-series-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amazon-nabs-scarlett-johansson-for-just-cause-series-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Nabs Scarlett Johansson for ‘Just Cause’ Series \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tScarlett Johansson will take on her first lead role in a TV series \u2014 and simultaneously revisit one of the first roles of her career.<\/p>\n

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\tJohansson will star in and executive produce just cause<\/em>, a limited series at Amazon’s Prime Video based on a 1992 novel by John Katzenbach. The streamer has given a straight to series order to the project from Warner Bros. TV and writer Christy Hall (I Am Not Okay With This<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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\tThe novel was previously adapted for a 1995 feature film starring Sean Connery. Johansson, in one of her first movie roles, played the daughter of Connery’s character.<\/p>\n

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\tThe series version of just cause<\/em> will center on Madison \u201cMadi\u201d Cowart (Johansson), a reporter for a Florida newspaper who’s assigned to cover the final days of a death row inmate and comes to believe the prisoner’s claims of innocence. <\/p>\n

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\tJohansson’s These Pictures banner is producing with Warner Bros. TV. Hall will executive produce along with Johansson and These Pictures’ Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn. The company’s head of television, Zara Duff, will oversee the project.<\/p>\n

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\tJohansson is currently filming Project Artemis<\/em> for director Greg Berlanti and Apple TV+. The two-time Oscar nominee also has Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City<\/em> and Kristin Scott Thomas’ My Mother’s Wedding<\/em> on deck and ended her run in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 2021’s Black Widow<\/em>. She is repped by CAA and Yorn Levine.<\/p>\n

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\tHall is repped by CAA, Grandview and attorney Miles Metcoff.<\/p>\n

\n\tdeadline<\/em> first reported the news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n