Amazon Freevee Has Secretly Made A Jury Trial Docu-Style Comedy Series Starring James Marsden
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: There have been whispers for months about a top-secret courtroom docu-style comedy series filming to run on Amazon Freevee.
We can reveal that the project, starring James Marsden (Enchanted, Westworld), is now in post-production and headed to the screen.“Freevee has confirmed the existence of the docu-style comedy series but details are under wraps amid speculation of the unique, genre-bending format centered around a jury trial,” a rep for the free, ad-supported platform told Deadline, declining further comment.The secrecy surrounding the filming was driven by the nature of the semi-improvised series which we hear employs a device similar to the setup used in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat and Brüno movies and the series Who Is America?
where actors, often in disguise, interact with unsuspecting regular (or famous, in some of Cohen’s work) people.In the case of the Freevee series, we hear Marsden and a group of largely up-and-coming actors with improv background performed alongside civilians in the comedy about being summoned for jury duty.
We hear the show was filmed in a real courtroom south of Los Angeles, with regular and addition shooting partially scheduled around Marsden’s Westworld schedule.The list of executive producers on the untitled series includes two producers who had previously worked with Cohen.
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