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. The project comes from Warner Bros. Television and writer-showrunner Justin Noble ( The Sex Lives of College Girls ), with David E. Kelley also executive producing.

The WBTV-Prime Video project is based on the podcast Karen , produced by Law & Crime and Wondery. 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

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