‘american fiction’ director cord jefferson & john wells board ‘just cause’ amazon limited series


‘american fiction’ director cord jefferson & john wells board ‘just cause’ amazon limited series

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_American 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. WATCH ON DEADLINE Hall executive produces the limited series alongside Johansson, Jefferson, Wells, Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn of These Pictures and Erin Jontow via


John Wells Productions. Zara Duffy, Head of Television for These Pictures, is overseeing for the company. Warner Bros. TV is the studio. In his directorial film debut, Jefferson helmed


American Fiction, based on Percival Everett’s book Erasure. The film received five Oscar nominations, including best picture, actor for Jeffrey Wright, supporting actor for Sterling K.


Brown, adapted screenplay for Jefferson and original score for Laura Karpman.  Jefferson, who is under an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group, won an Emmy for outstanding writing


for a limited series for his work on HBO’s _Watchmen. _His additional TV credits include _Succession, The Good Place _and _Master of None._ Wells, also under an overall deal with Warner


Bros. TV, has been nominated for 26 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning six, including outstanding drama series for _ER _and _The West Wing_. He also won an Emmy for outstanding special class


program for _The West Wing Documentary Special._ Variety was first to report the news.