Not as Epstein, you understand. Dern will be playing journalist Julie K. Brown.
The line marked Too Soon is permeable and known to shift. Nonetheless, getting what will prove to be our first dramatised treatment of the life and crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, financier and serial rapist, feels at least A Bit Soon. That’s not hard and fast; it’s a vibe.
So, it is A Bit Soon to learn via Variety that occasional dinosaur wrangler and David Lynch muse Laura Dern is set to star in an as-yet-untitled miniseries based on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The miniseries is based on the 2021 New York Times best seller Perversion Of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, and Dern will play Brown.
Starting in 2018, Brown published a string of incendiary articles on Epstein, uncovering 80 potential victims and telling the stories of eight. She also revealed the shady 2008 plea deal that allowed Epstein to plead guilty to lesser offenses and avoid federal sex trafficking charges. She is credited with reigniting the case against Epstein… and everything that came after, I guess.
According to the official precis, the miniseries will be “…an explosive account of an investigative reporter exposing the secret plea deal between Epstein and federal prosecutors. Drawing from Brown’s experience as a groundbreaking reporter for the Miami Herald, the book and the limited series follow her relentless years-long investigation that identified 80 victims, persuaded key survivors to go on the record, and led to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrests.”
Sharon Hoffman (House of Cards) is adapting the book and serving as executive producer and co-showrunner with Eileen Myers (Masters of Sex). Laura Dern is also an executive producer, along with Adam McKay and Kevin Messick of Hyperobject Industries, who gave us The Big Short and Don’t Look Up. At the very least, we can thank God they got to it before Ryan Murphy.
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