Michelle Dean is bringing another shocking true story to the screen. “The Act” co-creator, writer, and exec producer will pen “Stolen Time,” Amblin Partners’ biopic about wrongly convicted death row inmate Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs. Deadline broke the news.

“The studio recently acquired film rights to the riveting and timely story of Jacobs, who was in her 20s when she and her husband, Jesse Tafero, were convicted of the fatal shooting of two law enforcement officers based on the false testimony of the man who actually committed the murders,” Deadline details. “Sources tell Deadline that as part of the development process, Dean and [producer Juliet Blake] are reviewing over 2,500 personal letters sent between Jacobs and Tafero during their 15-year incarceration.”

Although Jacobs was released in 1992, Tafero was executed in 1990. Their story was previously told in Micki Dickoff’s TV movie “In the Blink of an Eye.”

“The Act” is a true crime miniseries about Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter, Gypsy Rose. After years of being kept ill, debilitated, and dependent by her mother — most likely due to Munchausen syndrome by proxy — Gypsy Rose killed Dee Dee. Patricia Arquette won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for portraying Dee Dee and Joey King landed Emmy and Golden Globe nods for playing Gypsy Rose.

Also a reporter, Dean has written for The New Yorker, the New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and Elle. She received the National Book Critics’ Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2016, and published her first book, “Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion,” in 2018.