ABC has put in development a drama from former O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark, writer-producers Elizabeth Craft & Sara Fain (The 100), ABC Studios and studio-based Mandeville TV.
Penned by Craft and Fain, the untitled project is described as “part legal thriller, part confessional, part revenge fantasy.” It centers on a female prosecutor who loses the trial of the century and is shredded by the media in the process. The drama chronicles what happens when 8 years later the murderer who got off strikes again.
The drama is fictional — it’s a whodunit soapy, twisty thriller in the vein of Presumed Innocent and The Staircase that examinees a fictional case from all sides of the law, going home with the characters and exploring how the case is affecting their lives. Still, its starting point draws parallels to Clark’s real-life story of prosecutor who presided over “the trial of the century”, finding herself in the eye of a media storm when O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of murder.
Penned by Craft and Fain, the untitled project is described as “part legal thriller, part confessional, part revenge fantasy.” It centers on a female prosecutor who loses the trial of the century and is shredded by the media in the process. The drama chronicles what happens when 8 years later the murderer who got off strikes again.
The drama is fictional — it’s a whodunit soapy, twisty thriller in the vein of Presumed Innocent and The Staircase that examinees a fictional case from all sides of the law, going home with the characters and exploring how the case is affecting their lives. Still, its starting point draws parallels to Clark’s real-life story of prosecutor who presided over “the trial of the century”, finding herself in the eye of a media storm when O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of murder.
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