Michael Douglas' 1983 Movie 'The Star Chamber' Being Turned Into a Series with a Gender Twist!

The 1983 movie The Star Chamber, which starred Michael Douglas in the lead role, is being turned into a television series with a gender twist!

Oscar-nominated writer Sheldon Turner is developing the thriller drama for Amazon Studios and he’s producing the series with his Vendetta Productions partner Jennifer Klein. Another executive producer is Ileen Maisel, who actually worked on the original movie.

Deadline reports that the series will follow “a revered female federal appellate court judge in San Francisco. 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.”

In the movie, Michael played a judge in Los Angeles who got involved with a modern-day Star Chamber. Watch the trailer below!