Oscar winner Nicole Kidman and Oscar nominee Jamie Lee Curtis are set to star together in a big-budget TV series based on Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels.
The books follow opera-loving workaholic coroner Kay Scarpetta and deal with a large amount of forensic science, the work serving as an influence on modern crime procedural series.
The project hails from writer-showrunner Liz Sarnoff (“Barry”) and Blumhouse Television and is reportedly nearing a two-season straight-to-series order at Amazon Prime Video. The order is expected to cover two eight-episode seasons with Sarnoff set to pen the adaptation for Blumhouse Productions and Curtis’ Comet label.
Kidman would play Scarpetta opposite Curtis as the forensic pathologist’s flighty sister Dorothy. Dorothy is also the mother of the recurring character Lucy Farinelli.
Fox 2000 spent years considering a loose film adaptation of the work with Angelina Jolie rumored to be involved in that incarnation which never took off past the development stage. That whole project fell by the wayside as the plan shifted to a scripted drama series. Curtis has been attached for several years now.
Kidman, Curtis, Cornwell, Jason Blum, Per Saari, Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold are set to executive produce.
Cornwell has published 26 books starting with “Postmortem” in 1990 and has sold over 100 million copies to date. Curtis has regularly moderated conversations with Cornwell who is known as being fiercely protective of her creation.
Source: Deadline
