Laura Dern to star in Epstein investigation limited series from Adam McKay

Dern will play Miami Herald reporter Julie K Brown in first scripted take on the Epstein story, based on Brown’s book Laura Dern is taking on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, in a new limited series executive produced by Adam McKay based on journalist Julie K Brown’s work busting open the story. Dern will play Brown, the Miami Herald investigative reporter on the late, disgraced financier’s tail when no one else was, for the first scripted take on the Epstein case. The screenplay will be based on Brown’s 2021 book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story. Sharon Hoffman, a writer on the 2020 limited series Mrs America, will write the project and serve as co-showrunner with Eileen Myers (The Night Agent, Masters of Sex). McKay, the writer-director of Don’t Look Up and executive producer on the HBO juggernaut Succession, among other credits, will serve as executive producer alongside Dern and Brown. The as-yet untitled series from Sony Pictures TV will provide “an explosive account of an investigative reporter exposing the secret plea deal between Epstein and federal prosecutors”, according to a logline from Sony. “Drawing from Brown’s experience as a groundbreaking reporte