EXCLUSIVE: Oscar, BAFTA and Tony Award-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones has landed her next high-profile TV project, an adaptation of Aidan Truhen‘s “gonzo thriller” The Price You Pay.
Zeta-Jones is starring in and producing Kill Jackie [working title], in which the novel’s lead Jack has switched from man to woman for the TV version.
The series is for Prime Video, Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures. Amazon has rights in several European territories including the UK, Ireland and Germany, while Fremantle is selling around the world bar the U.S.
In Kill Jackie, which will roll cameras next month, Zeta-Jones is Jackie Price, who has lived a wealthy, luxurious existence for the last 20 years – travelling the world, selling fine art using sophisticated tax loopholes and, above all, trying to stay anonymous after escaping a dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer.
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