Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis to Star in "Kay Scarpetta" TV Adaptation

Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis are teaming up for a TV series adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's novels "Kay Scarpetta" at Amazon.

Kidman portrays Scarpetta and Curtis play her sister, Dorothy.

Sources say that deals for the series are not yet done and that it is nearing a two-season order of eight episodes each at the streamer.

Liz Sarnoff will write the series and serve as executive producer and showrunner. 

Kidman and Per Saari will executive produce via Blossom Films along with Curtis executive producing via Comet Pictures. 

Blumhouse Television’s Jason Blum, Chris McCumber, and Jeremy Gold also executive produce. Curtis is currently under a first-look deal with Blumhouse.

Cornwell has written over 20 books in the Scarpetta series. 

Scarpetta starts as the Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the books before becoming a private forensic consultant.

News of the series coming together comes nearly two years since Curtis and Blumhouse announced they were developing a series version of the books.

This is the second series that Curtis has set up at Amazon. Curtis, who recently picked up her first Oscar nomination for “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, is also an executive producer on “The Sticky”. The series was ordered at Amazon in April 2022 and depicts the true story of the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

Kidman also has multiple shows in the works at Amazon. These include the dramas “Expats”, “Pretty Things”, “A Good Marriage”, “Things I Know to Be True”, and “Hope”. 

The acclaimed actress will executive produce and star in all of those projects except “A Good Marriage”, which she is just executive producing.