Renée Zellweger will lead Max’s TV adaptation of James Patterson and Mike Lupica’s “12 Months to Live,” the streamer announced Wednesday.
The “Bridget Jones’s Diary” actress is set to star in and executive produce the legal thriller series, titled “Jane Smith.” Miki Johnson (“Presumed Innocent,” “Ozark”) will serve as writer and showrunner for the show, which follows Jane (Zellweger), a brilliant, tough and darkly funny defense attorney in the Hamptons.
The official logline is as follows: “Up to this point, Jane has only cared about winning; however, her world is completely turned upside down when, on the eve of the biggest case of her career, she is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
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