A show about the investigation of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is coming to the small screen, Variety reports.

The scripted series, which doesn’t have a name yet, is set to star Laura Dern, who will play Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown. It’s based on the journalist’s 2021 bestselling book “Perversion of Justice,” named after her multi-part series in the Herald.

No other casting has been announced.

According to publicity information, Sharon Hoffman (”House of Cards”) wrote the script, and Adam McKay (”The Big Short”), along with Dern, will serve as executive producers.

The Sony TV series is based on Brown’s book “Perversion of Justice: the Jeffrey Epstein Story,” which detailed her 2018 Miami Herald investigation into the Palm Beach financier who received immunity from federal prosecutors, despite having sexually abused hundreds of underage girls.

After Brown’s articles were published, a federal judge ruled the “sweetheart deal” brokered by then South Florida U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta was illegal. In July of the following year, Epstein was arrested again, this time on sex trafficking charges, and Acosta resigned as U.S. Secretary of Labor.

A month later, Epstein was found dead by suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City while awaiting trial. Brown’s effort to persuade a reluctant police chief and traumatized survivors to go on the record for the first time also led to the arrest of Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence in Texas for sex trafficking.

The fallout led to the release of millions of the Justice Department’s so called Epstein files, which included dozens of high-profile people’s names, including Prince Andrew, former President Bill Clinton and current President Donald Trump.

Brown has won two George Polk Awards, a Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights Reporting, the Columbia Journalism Award, the Hillman Prize, PEN America’s Voice of Courage Award. In 2020, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.

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