Sony Pictures has tapped Melissa London Hilfers to write their “Jagged Edge” remake, Deadline confirms. Halle Berry is signed on to star as the heroine lawyer at the center of the thriller. Glenn Close toplined the 1985 hit.

The original “Jagged Edge” centers on Teddy Barnes (Close), a lawyer hired to defend a newspaper publisher accused of murdering his wife, a San Francisco heiress. Teddy’s chemistry with her client leads to an affair, but something about the case doesn’t sit right with her. It’s unclear if an acquittal would lead to the star-crossed lovers getting a happy ending or Teddy’s life being endangered by a potential sociopath.

A former litigation lawyer herself, Hilfers has a number of projects in the work. According to the source, she “sold her spec ‘Unfit’ to Amazon Studios as a potential vehicle for Dakota Johnson, a fact-based tale about Carrie Buck, a young Virginia woman who became a lightning rod for the movement to eliminate the ‘unfit’ from our country and was forced to fight singlehandedly against it for the one thing she desperately wanted – to be a mother. Hilfers also sold ‘Undone,’ a legal thriller compared to ‘Gone Girl’ meets ‘Primal Fear,’ to Parkes + MacDonald and Black Bear.” Hilfers is penning “Fusion Boy,” a story about a young scientist, for Chernin Entertainment and Fox.

Berry won an Oscar in 2002 for “Monster’s Ball.” “Kings” and “Kidnap” are among her recent credits.

“I want to start directing, I want to star producing more, I want to start being a part of making more opportunities for people of color,” Berry said last year. “We have to start telling stories that include us and if stories don’t include us, we have to start asking, ‘Why can’t that be a person of color? Why can’t that white male character be a black woman? Why can’t it?’ We have to start pushing the envelope and asking these questions,” she urged.