Scarlett Johansson is set to star in a Prime Video limited series called "Just Cause." File Photo Jim Ruymen/UPI
Scarlett Johansson and her husband, Colin Jost, attend the 35th annual American Cinematheque Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2021. File Photo by Mike Goulding/UPI
Scarlett Johansson (L) and Colin Jost arrive for the Vanity Fair Oscar party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif.,in 2020. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI
Scarlett Johansson attends the red carpet at the British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2020. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI
Scarlett Johansson arrives for the 26th annual SAG Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 2020. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson has signed on to star in and executive produce the Prime Video adaptation of John Katzenbach's novel, Just Cause.
This marks Johansson's first major television acting role.
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She will play a Florida reporter contacted by a death row prison inmate who insists he is innocent.
No other casting has been announced yet.
Christy Hall is writing and executive producing the limited series. She previously co-developed the Netflix series, I Am Not Okay With This.
A 1995 film version of Katzenbach's book starred Sean Connery, Blair Underwood, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Harris, Ruby Dee and Kate Capshaw.
Johansson had one of her first movie roles in the project when she was 10, playing the daughter of Connery's character.