Overview
- Sony Pictures Television, which disclosed Monday it is shopping a limited series, attached Laura Dern to star as Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown and to executive produce.
- The project adapts Brown’s 2021 book Perversion of Justice and has no network or streamer attached yet, so a pickup remains to be determined.
- Sharon Hoffman is writing and will co-showrun with Eileen Myers, while Adam McKay and Kevin Messick of Hyperobject Industries join Brown and Dern as executive producers.
- Sony’s logline says the series follows Brown’s years-long probe that exposed a secret non-prosecution deal, identified 80 victims, and preceded the arrests of Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 and Ghislaine Maxwell.
- If produced, this would be the first scripted TV take on the Epstein case, which Brown’s 2018 reporting revived by spurring new scrutiny, calls for DOJ file releases, and the resignation of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta.