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Sony Pictures TV, Laura Dern and Adam McKay are teaming up for a limited series about the investigation that opened the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Dern is set to star in the drama based on Miami Herald Book by investigative journalist Julie K. Brown Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story. The Ocsar and Emmy Award winner will play Brown in the series. Sharon Hoffman (Mrs. America, cut it out(He writes and will serve as co-director with Eileen Myers)Night Agent, Masters of Sex).
Hoffman and Myers will executive produce the project with Dern, McKay and Kevin Messick for Hyperobject Industries and Brown. Sony is taking the series to potential buyers — and will likely find bidders for the first script in the Epstein case.
Sony describes the limited series as “an explosive story of an investigative reporter who uncovers the secret plea deal between Epstein and federal prosecutors. Inspired by Brown’s experience as a pioneer reporter for Miami HeraldThe book and limited series follow her years-long investigation that identified 80 victims, convinced key survivors to come forward, and led to the arrests of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Brown reports for 2018 in Miami Herald This led to a raft of new sex trafficking charges against Epstein — who had previously been convicted on charges of trafficking a minor into prostitution and soliciting a prostitute — and Maxwell, and led to persistent calls for the Justice Department to release its full files on Epstein, his associates and acquaintances, including presidents (Donald Trump and Bill Clinton), members of the royal family (former Britain’s Prince Andrew) and prominent business leaders and media figures.
Brown Herald The reports also led to the resignation of then-Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida signed a non-prosecution agreement barring any federal charges from Epstein’s first criminal case in 2007. Instead, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges.
The newspaper series and Brown’s book also interviewed a number of Epstein’s victims, many of whom spoke on the record for the first time.
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