These days, former prosecutor Marcia Clark is best associated with Sarah Paulson’s Emmy-winning portrayal in FX’s “The People vs. O.J. Simpson.” Clark has since turned from law to a career in writing, and her work is again headed to the small screen.
Per Deadline, ABC and Mandeville TV have just picked up Clark’s latest legal thriller. Labeled as “part legal thriller, part confessional, part revenge fantasy,” this series will loosely blend fiction and events based on Clark’s own life. Clark aims to focus on a female prosecutor who “loses the trial of the century and is shredded by the media in the process.”
Instead of focusing on the trial itself, the untitled project will pick up eight years later. It will explore both the lingering emotional aftermath and what happens when “the murderer who got off strikes again.”
Clark will once again join forces with writer-producers Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain (“The Family,” “The 100”), the creative team behind another legal drama based on Clark’s fictional thriller “Blood Defense.” This procedural was picked up by NBC “with a put pilot commitment last season.” Clark, Craft, and Fain will write and executive produce.
The majority of Clark’s legal thriller novels follow a fictional female prosecutor through various cases. Her best-sellers include “The Competition,” “Killer Ambition,” “Guilt by Degrees,” and “Guilt by Association.” Her new series, which focuses on a female defense attorney, was released last year.
