Elizabeth Banks Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text One of the more closely followed court cases of recent years is getting a dramatic treatment. Prime Video is developing a limited series based on the Karen Read trial, with Elizabeth Banks set to play the lead role and executive produce via her Brownstone Productions. The project comes from Warner Bros. Television and writer-showrunner Justin Noble (The Sex Lives of College Girls, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), with David E. Kelley also executive producing. The potential series will explore "society's obsession with true crime, the allure of conspiracy, and the deepening crisis of trust in our institutions," per a logline. Related Stories Business You Don't Actually Own That Movie You Just "Bought." A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon TV 'Fallout' Heads to Post-Apocalyptic Las Vegas in Season 2 First Look The WBTV-Prime Video project is based on the podcast Karen, produced by Law & Crime and Wondery; Brownstone Productions initiated development on the project and worked with Warner Bros. and Wondery to acquire rights to the podcast, later bringing on Noble to adapt the matieral. Read and her defense attorney, Alan Jackson, signed a separate deal to develop a scripted take on her case with Killers of the Flower Moon producer LBI Entertainment. In June, a jury acquitted Read on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe (she was convicted on a drunk driving charge). The trial was the second for Read after an earlier one ended in a mistrial. The case attracted intense media interest, with news shows, podcasts and documentaries like A Body in the Snow all covering minute details. Noble, who has an overall deal at Warner Bros. TV, will executive produce with Kelley and Matt Tinker of David E. Kelley Productions; Banks, Max Handelman and Krissy Wall of Brownstone Productions; Jen Sargent, Marshall Lewy, Aaron Hart, and Jeni Mulein of Wondery; and Rachel Stockman and Dan Abrams of Law & Crime. Banks is coming off another Prime Video series, The Better Sister, and has Peacock's The Miniature Wife on deck. She and Brownstone Productions are repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro. Noble is with WME and Hansen Jacobson. Kelley is repped by CAA. Deadline first reported the news. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Live Feed John Malkovich Joins 'Bad Monkey' Season 2 sponsored College Football on Sling TV: How to Watch NCAA Football Games Live Online with Sling's New Passes Live Feed Emil Wakim Not Returning to 'SNL' After One Season: "Gut Punch of a Call to Get" Sports Issue How a Former Pro Surfer Turned Emmy-Winning Cameraman Stays Afloat for HBO's '100 Foot Wave' Live Feed 'With Love, Meghan' Sticks to Original Recipe in Season 2 (Unfortunately) Live Feed Brooks Nader Is Ready for 'Love Thy Nader' to Be Hulu's Next Sister-Centered Reality TV Hit Live Feed John Malkovich Joins 'Bad Monkey' Season 2 sponsored College Football on Sling TV: How to Watch NCAA Football Games Live Online with Sling's New Passes Live Feed Emil Wakim Not Returning to 'SNL' After One Season: "Gut Punch of a Call to Get" Sports Issue How a Former Pro Surfer Turned Emmy-Winning Cameraman Stays Afloat for HBO's '100 Foot Wave' Live Feed 'With Love, Meghan' Sticks to Original Recipe in Season 2 (Unfortunately) Live Feed Brooks Nader Is Ready for 'Love Thy Nader' to Be Hulu's Next Sister-Centered Reality TV Hit