Scarlett Johansson to Lead ‘Just Cause’ Series for Amazon | THR News - video Dailymotion

The Warner Bros. TV-produced thriller will mark her first lead role in a TV project.

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00:00Scarlett Johansson is set to make her TV leading role debut.

00:05The actress will take on her first lead role in a TV series

00:08while revisiting one of her earliest career roles

00:10by starring and executive producing in Just Cause.

00:14The project is a limited series set for Amazon's Prime Video

00:17based on a 1992 novel by John Katzenbach.

00:21The novel was previously adapted for a 1995 feature film starring Sean Connery.

00:26Johansson, in one of her first movie roles, played the daughter of Connery's character.

00:30The series' version of Just Cause will center on Madison Maddy Coart, played by Johansson,

00:35a reporter for a Florida newspaper who's assigned to cover the final days of a death row inmate

00:41and comes to believe the prisoner's claims of innocence.

00:44Johansson is currently filming Project Artemis for director Greg Berlanti and Apple TV+.

00:49The two-time Oscar nominee, after recently ending her tenure with the MCU,

00:53also has Wes Anderson's Asteroid City and Chris and Scott Thomas' My Mother's Wedding on deck.

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