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In the series based on the novel by John Katzenbach, the actress will play a journalist tasked with reporting on the last days of a man sentenced to death.
Even for a big screen star like Scarlett Johansson it was time to star in a high-profile television project. Deadlines reports that the actress – best known for her role as Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow in the Marvel universe – has signed on to play a lead role in the new series of Prime Videos entitled Just causea legal thriller based on the novel by John Katzenbach known in Italy with the title The right cause and already ordered from the streaming video service.
Just Cause: The plot of the Prime Video series with Scarlett Johansson
Just cause centers on a Florida newspaper reporter, Madison “Madi” Cowart played by Johansson, who is tasked with reporting on the final days of a death row inmate before his execution. In the book the protagonist is actually a man, but the character has been adapted and remodeled on Johansson. The latter will also be executive producer of the series together with the screenwriter Christy Hall (I Am Not Okay With This).
Scarlett Johansson’s first big role in a TV series
For Scarlett Johansson this is the first leading role in a TV series. In fact, during her career, on TV she only occasionally appeared on the sketch show Saturday Night Live and for a cameo in the series Entourageas well as lend her voice to the stop motion comedy series Robot Chicken. Ironically, however, the actress already had a connection with Katzenbach’s novel; in fact she as a child she – at just 10 years old – she had starred in the 1995 film based on the same book and always entitled The just cause. Directed by Arne Glimcherthe film version involved the cast Sean Connery (Johansson was just playing his character’s daughter) e Laurence Fishburne. For her, then, this series is a bit of a throwback to when her glittering career in film was just getting started.
