Amazon orders The Star Chamber, based on the Michael Douglas film of the same name

Deadline

The 1983 mystery thriller is getting a gender twist for its TV adaptation. The Star Chamber series "follows a revered female federal appellate court judge in San Francisco," per Deadline. "She leads a shadowy group of judges that decide to right the wrongs of the broken legal system as she struggles to balance her obligations to law, to religion and to her family." Golden Globe-winning Up in the Air co-screenwriter Sheldon Turner will write the TV adaptation.