Amazon Prime Video has premiered the trailer for upcoming crime drama series “Scarpetta” starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis and arriving on the service in one month.
The series is based on author Patricia Cornwell’s book series that began with “Postmortem” in 1990 and has sold 120 million copies to date.
The show unfolds across two time periods, 28 years apart, with Kidman as the older opera-loving workaholic coroner and forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta who is determined to prove that her career-making case isn’t also her undoing.
The narrative will also show her beginnings as a chief medical examiner in the late 1990s alongside her present-day return to her hometown, where she resumes her former position while investigating a grisly murder.
As Scarpetta pursues justice, she must navigate complicated relationships, including the fraught dynamic with her sister, Dorothy Farinelli, confront long-held professional and personal grudges, and face secrets that threaten to unravel everything she’s built.
In the present day scenes, Jamie Lee Curtis will play her sister Dorothy, Bobby Cannavale will be Detective Pete Marino, Simon Baker will be FBI profiler Benton Wesley, and Ariana DeBose will be Kay’s tech-savvy niece Lucy Watson.
Scenes set in the 1990s will see Rosy McEwen as Kay Scarpetta, Amanda Righetti as Dorothy, Jake Cannavale as Marino, and Hunter Parrish as Wesley.
The series hails from writer-showrunner Liz Sarnoff (“Barry”), Blumhouse Television and Amazon MGM Studios. Kidman, Curtis, Cornwell, Sarnoff, Jason Blum, Per Saari, Chris Dickie, David Gordon Green, Amy Sayres, Chris McCumber and Jeremy Gold executive produce.
“Scarpetta” premieres March 11th on Prime Video.
