Prime Video has formally ordered two seasons of Scarpetta starring and govt produced by Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis, as Deadline predicted early final yr after we introduced solely that the challenge based mostly on Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling Kay Scarpetta guide sequence was in improvement.
The thriller thriller has additionally set 5 new sequence regulars: Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (West Aspect Story), Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (Ezra), Emmy nominee Simon Baker (Breath), Rosy McEwen (Blue Jean) and Jake Cannavale (The Supply).
Scarpetta follows Kay Scarpetta (Kidman), Chief Medical Examiner, as she returns to Virginia and resumes her former place with complicated relationships, each private {and professional} – together with her sister Dorothy (Curtis), with loads of grudges and secrets and techniques to uncover.
DeBose will play Lucy Farinelli-Watson, Dorothy’s daughter; Bobby Cannavale will play former detective Pete Marino; Baker joins as FBI profiler Benton Wesley; McEwen joins as Previous Kay Scarpetta and Jake Cannavale will play Previous Pete Marino.
L-R: Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Patricia Cornwell and Liz Sarnoff
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“I’m past excited that that is lastly taking place. This shall be nice enjoyable for all, and I’m grateful for the immense expertise that the present is drawing. I’ve all the time been an enormous fan of Jamie Lee Curtis and Nicole Kidman. Their wanting to do that is humbling and easily superior. Working with the good Liz Sarnoff is wonderful. Blumhouse and Prime Video are a dream. This has been value ready for, and I’m so wanting ahead to the present,” Cornwell shared.
Liz Sarnoff (Barry, Misplaced) will write, govt produce, and showrun. David Gordon Inexperienced (Halloween, Stronger) is about to direct the primary two episodes.
Kidman will govt produce for Blossom Movies, and Curtis will govt produce for Comet Footage. Cornwell will govt produce for P & S Tasks alongside Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Chris Dickie, and Chris McCumber for Blumhouse Tv and Per Saari for Blossom Movies. David Gordon Inexperienced and Amy Sayres additionally function govt producers. The sequence is produced by Blumhouse Tv and Amazon MGM Studios in affiliation with Blossom Movies and Comet Footage.
“I’ve wished to carry Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta to a display, with my firm, Comet Footage, for some time. I’m significantly excited that Nicole Kidman will lastly carry her to life. I’m additionally wanting ahead to taking part in Nicole’s sister as we inform the story with Liz Sarnoff’s knowledgeable care, management, talent, and expertise, and I’m excited to work once more with David as our director,” mentioned Curtis.
“I do know the ardent followers of the books shall be very completely satisfied, and the brand new viewers shall be compelled by the characters, crimes, and mysteries which might be the trifecta of Patricia’s masterful storytelling. Blumhouse, Blossom, and Prime Video are the right companions to carry Scarpetta to you, and a warning……..there WILL be BLOOD,” she added.
”I’ve been pursuing Scarpetta for almost twenty years going again to when it was meant to be a characteristic, so to unite with the formidable Jamie Lee Curtis, Prime Video, Jason Blum, and David Gordon Inexperienced on the Liz Sarnoff sequence model of Patricia Cornwell’s epic and thrilling books feels prefer it was meant to be. I can’t wait to inhabit Kay Scarpetta and am so grateful to Patricia Cornwell for entrusting me together with her,” Kidman mentioned.
Liz Sarnoff is represented by UTA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, LLP; Jaime Lee Curtis is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Patricia Cornwell is represented by CAA; Nicole Kidman is represented by CAA, Media Expertise Group and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Bobby Cannavale is repped by CAA and Framework Leisure; Simon Baker is repped by CAA, United Administration (Australia) , Hamilton Hodell (UK); Ariana DeBose is represented by CAA, AC Administration and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Rosy McEwen is repped by Curtis Brown Group, CAA and Goodman Genow Schenkman ; Jake Cannavale is repped by Buchwald, Framework Leisure and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams.
