Amazon Prime Video offers Scarlett Johansson for Just Cause, a modern remake of the film of the same name based on the novel by John Katzenbach.
In the television adaptation of Just Cause for the Amazon Prime Video streaming platform, the book’s protagonist, Miami newspaper columnist Matt Cowart, has a gender transition, and Scarlett Johansson plays the female lead, Madison “Madi”Cowart, a struggling reporter for a Florida newspaper sent in to cover the last days. a prisoner sentenced to death. In the American film directed by Arne Glimcher, released in 1995, she embodied the image of Kathy Armstrong.
EXCLUSIVE: In her first major foray into television, Scarlett Johansson is set to star and executive produce the thriller Just Cause, a limited series based on John Katzenbach’s 1992 novel https://t.co/2ncu6FVgGA.
— Deadline in Hollywood (@DEADLINE) November 28, 2022
Just Cause was written by Christy Hall (“I don’t like this, Daddio”). She is an executive producer on the Warner Bros. Television and Amazon Studios along with Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Leah, Keenan Flynn and Zara Duffy of These Pictures.