Fox 2000 has acquired the screen rights to Patricia Cornwell’s series of Kay Scapetta novels, with an eye toward Angelina Jolie starring as the medical examiner heroine. “There are 16 Scarpetta novels, meaning a franchise is hoped for, but this film won't be tied to a specific Cornwell mystery title. Much the way that Jason Bourne morphed into an action hero in plots not rigidly locked into the Robert Ludlum book series, the opera-loving coroner Scarpetta will be the lead in a suspense thriller in the vein of The Silence of the Lambs and Seven,” Variety reports.

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