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Amazon hosts Julia Roberts’ Homecoming

Julia Roberts will star in Homecoming

Amazon has ordered two seasons of a drama that’s being directed and exec produced by Mr Robot creator Sam Esmail, with Pretty Woman’s Julia Roberts attached to star.

Homecoming is from Universal Cable Productions (UCP) and is based on Gimlet Media’s fictional podcast of the same name, which launched in November. The second season started yesterday.

The TV version of the thriller is being written by the podcast’s creators Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg. It follows a caseworker at a secret government facility and a soldier wanting to rejoin civilian life.

UCP will produce with US-based Anonymous Content and Esmail’s prodco Esmail Corp, with Chad Hamilton, Horowitz and Micah among the exec producers. Amazon Studios will take international rights and will make the show available via its Prime Video service around the world.

It’s the second drama to get a two-season order from Amazon following David O Russell’s untitled mafia drama starring Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore.

Roberts is already attached to appear in Today Will Be Different, which is being lined up for HBO.

Gimlet Media was launched in 2014 and has already seen another of its podcasts, Startup, picked up for TV. Alex Inc, which is based on the audio show, was picked up by ABC for next season earlier this year.

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