Adam McKay (“Vice,” “The Big Short”) and Sony Pictures Television are joining forces to produce an untitled TV series set within the increasingly disturbing world of Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy American financier who was exposed as overseeing an international child trafficking ring with cohort and current inmate Ghislaine Maxwell. In the wake of those events, his ties to many elites in politics, the tech world, finance, entertainment, and even royalty have been further established, including a longstanding social relationship with the sitting President of the United States.
That’s not it as the report from Variety reveals that Oscar-winning actress Laura Dern (“Marriage Story,” “Jay Kelly”) has been cast as investigative reporter Julie K. Brown of The Miami Herarld, the relentless journalist that has decided decades to covering and exposing the Jeffrey Epstein case and now The Epstein Files (what obviously looks like an adminstration cover-up by the Department of Jutice and FBI to illegally over-redacted and withhold certain files to project powerful people that may have participated in the ring, including Donald Trump).
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The outlet also provided the following synopsis:
“An explosive account of an investigative reporter exposing the secret plea deal between Epstein and federal prosecutors. Drawing from Brown’s experience as a groundbreaking reporter for the Miami Herald, the book and the limited series follow her relentless years-long investigation that identified 80 victims, persuaded key survivors to go on the record, and led to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrests.”
Speaking of Brown, she won’t be simply a character in the gestating show, and they’ll be adapting her book, “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story.” Also, Sharon Hoffman (“Mrs. America,” “House of Cards”) will adapt Brown’s book for the Sony project and serve as executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Eileen Myers (“American Hostage,” “Masters of Sex”).
Dern, Brown, McKay, and Kevin Messick via Hyperobject Industries are also set as executive producers on the new TV series.
Given the daily information revealed about Jeffrey Epstein, his mysterious “suicide” in prison, and the unsettling, growing group of well-known people connected to him in The Epstein Files (the circus connected to their incompetent release to Congress and the public hasn’t stopped, with no end in sight), it feels like a never-ending source of dramatic television based on true events. Considering this is a book adaptation, we don’t know for sure whether they’ll seek to incorporate subsequent reporting from Brown, but we shouldn’t be entirely surprised if they infuse more recent revelations over time.
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