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Laura Dern to Play Journalist Julie K. Brown in Jeffrey Epstein Series

The project is in development without a title or release date.

Overview

  • Sony Pictures Television is developing an event-series adaptation of Julie K. Brown’s book Perversion of Justice.
  • Laura Dern will star as Brown and serve as a producer alongside Brown and filmmaker Adam McKay.
  • Writer Sharon Hoffmann is adapting the book for television with Hoffmann and Eileen Myers set as showrunners and executive producers.
  • Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries is producing with Sony, and the team is shopping the series to broadcasters and streamers.
  • The drama aims to center survivors’ accounts drawn from Brown’s reporting that brought fresh scrutiny to Epstein’s crimes.