Just Cause: Scarlett Johansson replaces Sean Connery

After becoming the most popular “widow” in the MCU, Scarlett Johansson arrives in her first TV series, Just Cause.

Scarlett Johansson as a reporter

This will be a first for her and she will have the difficult task of succeeding Sean Connery: Scarlett Johansson will actually star in his first series, in this case a mini-series, adaptation of the novel Just cause

Published in 1992 by John Katzenbach. Cord Jefferson and John Wells (ER) will have the difficult task of writing this series for Prime Video.

According to Diversity At the core of the information, the series will tell the story Madison Covert (Scarlett Johansson), a Miami journalist who receives a letter from a death row inmate claiming his innocence. The ensuing investigation not only casts doubt on the prisoner’s guilt, but also reveals other hidden horrors.

There is no information yet about the series airing on Prime or filming or more.

Sean Connery in the first adaptation

This is not the first time the novel has been adapted. Three years after its release in bookstores, Sean Connery is the hero of this adaptation directed by Arne Glimcher. With Sean Connery, we got significantly Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capeshaw

Or Blair Underwood. The film is in the vein of feature films about lawyers debating the issue of the death penalty, viz The right to kill.

Bobby Earl is a young black man who is sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a little girl. Is he really guilty? Paul Armstrong, a prominent lawyer who vehemently opposed the death penalty, believed in his innocence. He reopened the inquiry and found formal deficiencies in his file examination. But to hope for his client’s acquittal, Armstrong must rely on the disturbing revelations of a dangerous psychopath, Bobby Earl’s prison neighbor…