Fresh from playing country music star Tammy Wynette, Jessica Chastain is swapping the microphone for a laptop. The George & Tammy star is to front Apple limited series The Savant.
The eight-part series, which has been in the works for some time, comes from Anatomy of a Scandal co-creator Melissa James Gibson and is produced by Fifth Season and Anonymous Content.
It will see Chastain play a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country.
The series is based on a true story published by Cosmopolitan, which was written by Andrea Stanley, who will consult on the series.
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