Amazon Studios is developing a gender swapped TV series reboot of the Michael Douglas-led 1983 crime drama feature “The Star Chamber”.
Peter Hyams (“The Relic,” “2010,” “Timecop”) helmed and co-wrote the original in which Douglas played an idealistic Los Angeles Judge who becomes frustrated with the technicalities of the law that prevents the prosecution of three criminals accused of heinous crimes.
A fellow judge advises him about a modern-day Star Chamber, derived from the 15th-17th century English court, where it doesn’t honor the standards of due process and where modern judges identifies criminals who cannot be brought to justice through the judicial system and take action against them using a hired assassin.
The series version will follow the story of a revered female federal appellate court judge in San Francisco who leads a shadowy group of judges that decide to right the wrongs of the broken legal system as she struggles to balance her obligations to law, to religion and to her family.
Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein will pen and executive produce for 20th Century Fox TV and Fox 21 TV Studios.
Source: Deadline
