Prime Video introduced that it has ordered two seasons of creator Patricia Cornwell’s world best-selling Scarpetta from Blumhouse Tv starring Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Nicole Kidman and Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis and we will’t wait! Able to know all the main points?
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Curtis and Emmy profitable producer Kidman may also government produce. Emmy-nominated Liz Sarnoff will write, government produce, and showrun. David Gordon Inexperienced is about to direct the primary two episodes. The collection will premiere solely on Prime Video in additional than 240 international locations and territories worldwide.
The thriller thriller, primarily based on the hit ebook collection, follows Kay Scarpetta (Kidman), the Chief Medical Examiner, as she returns to Virginia and resumes her former place with complicated relationships, each private {and professional} – together with her sister Dorothy (Curtis), with loads of grudges and secrets and techniques to uncover.
Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale performs former detective Pete Marino; Emmy nominee Simon Baker joins as FBI profiler Benton Wesley; Oscar winner Ariana DeBose will play Lucy Farinelli-Watson, Dorothy’s daughter; BIFA winner Rosy McEwen joins as Previous Kay Scarpetta, and Jake Cannavale as Previous Pete Marino.
“Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta has enraptured followers for many years and I’m honored that Prime Video is entrusted to convey the collection to display for our world clients,” stated Vernon Sanders, head of tv, Amazon MGM Studios. “Essentially the most exemplary group has been assembled for the collection with Liz Sarnoff on the helm with a unprecedented imaginative and prescient; the immensely gifted Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis, and the implausible solid; and the top-notch group at Blumhouse.”
“I’m past excited that that is lastly occurring. This shall be nice enjoyable for all, and I’m grateful for the immense expertise that the present is drawing. I’ve at all times been an enormous fan of Jamie Lee Curtis and Nicole Kidman. Their wanting to do that is humbling and easily superior. Working with the sensible Liz Sarnoff is superb. Blumhouse and Prime Video are a dream. This has been value ready for, and I’m so wanting ahead to the present,” acknowledged Patricia Cornwell.
Jamie Lee Curtis stated, “I’ve wished to convey Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta to a display, with my firm, Comet Photos, for some time. I’m notably excited that Nicole Kidman will lastly convey her to life. I’m additionally wanting ahead to taking part in Nicole’s sister as we inform the story with Liz Sarnoff’s skilled care, management, talent, and expertise, and I’m excited to work once more with David as our director.”
“I do know the ardent followers of the books shall be very joyful, and the brand new viewers shall be compelled by the characters, crimes, and mysteries which might be the trifecta of Patricia’s masterful storytelling. Blumhouse, Blossom, and Prime Video are the proper companions to convey Scarpetta to you, and a warning……..there WILL be BLOOD,” she ended.
Nicole Kidman added, ”I’ve been pursuing Scarpetta for almost twenty years going again to when it was supposed to be a characteristic, so to unite with the formidable Jamie Lee Curtis, Prime Video, Jason Blum, and David Gordon Inexperienced on the Liz Sarnoff collection model of Patricia Cornwell’s epic and thrilling books feels prefer it was meant to be. I can’t wait to inhabit Kay Scarpetta and am so grateful to Patricia Cornwell for entrusting me together with her.”
“I learn Patricia Cornwell’s Scarpetta books with my Mom once they got here out within the ’90s,” stated showrunner Liz Sarnoff. “We liked having a badass feminine ‘boss’ heroine to root for and have been amazed by the specificity, complexity, and sheer addictiveness of Patricia’s storytelling. I couldn’t be extra grateful and excited to be bringing these tales to life on the display.”
“Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling Kay Scarpetta collection is beloved by tens of millions, and we’re proud to lastly convey this iconic character to screens world wide with this dream group. Liz, Nicole, Jamie Lee, Patricia, and David all share a ardour for this present and this character, and we’re grateful to our companions at Prime Video for supporting the imaginative and prescient,” stated Jason Blum, Founder/CEO, Blumhouse.
Kidman will government produce for Blossom Movies, and Curtis will government produce for Comet Photos. Liz Sarnoff will write, government produce, and function showrunner. Patricia Cornwell will government produce for P & S Initiatives alongside Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Chris Dickie, and Chris McCumber for Blumhouse Tv and Per Saari for Blossom Movies.
David Gordon Inexperienced and Amy Sayres additionally function government producers. The collection is produced by Blumhouse Tv and Amazon MGM Studios in affiliation with Blossom Movies and Comet Photos.
Scarpetta will premiere quickly on Prime Video.