Elizabeth Banks will star as Karen Read and serve as executive producer on a Prime Video and Warner Bros. Television limited series. Justin Noble will serve as writer-showrunner, and David E. Kelley will executive-produce. The project draws on the Law & Crime and Wondery podcast "Karen" and is separate from a scripted adaptation deal Read and defense attorney Alan Jackson signed with LBI Productions. The series will examine society's obsession with true crime, conspiracy allure, and weakening trust in institutions. Karen Read was tried twice over the 2022 death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe; a mistrial preceded a retrial acquittal on major charges and a misdemeanor DUI conviction.
The series will explore "society's obsession with true crime, the allure of conspiracy, and the deepening crisis of trust in our institutions," per The Hollywood Reporter. The project is based on the Law & Crime and Wondery podcast " Karen" and is separate from the scripted adaptation deal Read and defense attorney Alan Jackson inked with LBI Productions earlier this summer, the news outlet reported.
Read, 45, was accused of murdering her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, on a snowy night in Canton in January 2022. Prosecutors alleged she drunkenly backed her SUV into O'Keefe while dropping him off at a fellow Boston police officer's house party. However, Read's lawyers argued she was framed in a law enforcement coverup and floated an alternate theory that O'Keefe was killed inside the home.
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