Julia Roberts is looking to take on her next Amazon limited series after a successful run on the critically acclaimed Homecoming. The actress is in discussions to star in and executive produce Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, based on the bestselling novel by Jo Piazza. The series is being adapted by Jon Robin Baitz, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright who created the ABC series Brothers & Sisters and the NBC miniseries The Slap.
Published to acclaim last summer by Simon & Schuster, the novel focuses on a woman who wants it all — political power, a happy marriage, and happiness—then has to decide how much she is willing to sacrifice for all that. An idealistic Charlotte Walsh leaves her job as a high-powered Silicon Valley executive to move back with her husband and three daughters to her downtrodden Pennsylvania hometown so that she can run for Senate in a midterm election that will decide the balance of power in Congress. She is initially shocked at how nasty her opponent is willing to play in the campaign, and how harshly she is judged by the media. She also sees that the strain wears heavily on her family. When a secret is uncovered by the opposition that could jeopardize her candidacy and everything she holds dear, Charlotte is forced to measure that cost against her ambition to make a difference.
Julia Roberts seems to have a good thing going with Amazon. While she won’t be returning to star in the second season of Homecoming, she will still be serving as an executive producer on that Amazon limited series as well.
