Deadline is reporting that Gotham star Morena Baccarin is set for an as-yet-untitled legal drama on NBC, which has been written by Ken Sanzel (Numbers) and is described as “The Good Wife meets The Wire.”
The pilot “tells the story of Morena (Baccarin), a former police officer-turned-high-powered attorney who navigates the ever-changing landscape of New York City politics, law enforcement and the justice system, all while juggling a complicated personal life. Morena works for a law firm that defends New York police officers in a wide range of cases.”
“I sparked to it given my background as a cop, and the current climate,” said Sanzel. “It’s an opportunity to look at the hot-button issue of police misconduct from a realistic and less dogmatic POV; examining cops as human beings — sometimes right, sometimes wrong, too often victims of the NYPD’s Byzantine internal politics. [The biggest draw is] the opportunity to build a complicated lead character for Morena — a lawyer who masters the corridors of power as adeptly as the courtroom, whose central role in controversial cases makes her a burgeoning NYC celebrity, and whose up-from-bootstraps past has her wrestling with her shifting identity.”
Baccarin is doing the pilot with the blessing of Warner Bros., and should the pilot be picked up to series, she will drop down from a series regular on Gotham, but continue to appear as a recurring guest star.
Originally published November 16, 2016. Updated April 16, 2018.
