‘American Fiction’ Director Cord Jefferson & John Wells Board ‘Just Cause’ Amazon Limited Series
deadline.comAmerican Fiction filmmaker Cord Jefferson and writer John Wells have signed on to Just Cause, Amazon’s upcoming thriller limited series, starring and executive produced by Scarlett Johansson, Deadline has confirmed.
Jefferson and Wells will co-write the first episode and executive produce the series. John Wells Productions has joined as producer of the series.
Based on John Katzenbach’s 1992 novel, Just Cause hails from writer Christy Hall (I’m Not OK With This, Daddio), Johansson’s These Pictures banner and Warner Bros.
TV. In a very competitive situation, the project landed at Amazon Studios with a straight-to-series order for Prime Video. In the TV adaptation, the book’s male protagonist, Miami newspaper editorial writer Matt Cowart, is undergoing a gender swap, with Johansson playing the series’ female lead Madison “Madi” Cowart, a struggling reporter for a Florida newspaper sent to cover the final days of an inmate on death row.
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