Scarlett Johansson to make TV debut with Simply Trigger for Prime

Now that her Marvel days are seemingly behind her, particularly after a messy lawsuit with Disney which will have gotten Bob Chapek ousted, Scarlett Johansson has determined to set her sights on making her tv debut and can be government producing a restricted TV adaptation of Simply Trigger, from the novel by John Katzenbach. Sarcastically, the novel had already been tailored into a movie starring Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, and even featured Johansson in her second appearing function as Sean Connery’s daughter.

Deadline experiences that Johansson can be starring as a struggling reporter named Madison “Madi” Cowart, a employee for a Florida newspaper despatched to cowl the final days of a jail inmate who’s on loss of life row. Christy Corridor, author of I’m Not OK with This and Daddio, groups up with Johansson’s banner, These Photos, in affiliation with Warner Bros. TV to strike a aggressive cope with Amazon for a straight-to-series order on Prime Video.

Corridor is about to government produce with Johansson along with writing. In addition to Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn of These Photos. Zara Duffy, Head of Tv for These Photos, is overseeing the mission for the corporate. Whereas Warner Bros. TV is the studio. The 1995 movie adaptation was directed by Arne Glimcher, and along with Connery and Fishburne, co-starred Kate Capshaw, Ruby Dee, and Ed Harris.

Johansson may be seen in Wes Anderson’s new movie, the upcoming Astroid Metropolis. In the meantime, Christy Corridor can be set to make her directorial debut with Daddio, which is an adaptation of her personal play, and can be starring Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson. Manufacturing on that movie will start this week.