Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy has signed on to write an untitled movie featuring crime character Kay Scarpetta, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Scarpetta, a forensic scientist, is the protagonist in the series of crime novels of Patricia Cornwell. She made her first appearance in 1990’s Postmortem and is still going strong, returning, 23 books later, in this year’s Chaos.
At one point Angelina Jolie was attached to a film adaptation of the books, but it is not known if she is still linked to the project.
Nagy was Oscar-nominated earlier this year for Carol, her adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt.
