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Elizabeth Banks to Play Karen Read in Prime Video Podcast-Based Limited Series

The adaptation draws from the podcast 'Karen,' separate from an LBI version developed with Read.

Overview

  • Prime Video and Warner Bros. Television are developing the limited series, with Banks also serving as an executive producer through Brownstone.
  • Justin Noble is attached as showrunner and writer, with David E. Kelley on board as an executive producer alongside teams from Wondery and Law & Crime.
  • The project is based on the Law & Crime and Wondery podcast that chronicled the case and its competing narratives.
  • A separate scripted effort with LBI Entertainment is being developed with Karen Read and her defense attorney Alan Jackson, promising exclusive access.
  • Read was acquitted in June 2025 of murder and manslaughter and received one year of probation on an OUI conviction, and no release timeline for the series has been announced.