Apple:

Apple has given a straight-to-series order for “Lady in the Lake,” a new limited series directed and co-written by Alma Har’el that will co-star Academy Award winners Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o.

And:

“Lady in the Lake” is an adaptation of Laura Lippman’s New York Times best-selling novel of the same name. The limited series takes place in ’60s Baltimore, where an unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz (Portman) to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood (Nyong’o), a hard-working woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore’s Black progressive agenda.

Natalie Portman won the Oscar for Best Actress for Black Swan. And is the rare actor who crossed streams from Star Wars (Queen Amidala) to Marvel (Jane Foster).

Lupita Nyong’o won the Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, but also grabbed the Star Wars / Marvel crossover achievement, doing motion capture as Maz Kanata in the Star Wars sequel trilogy and as Nakia in Black Panther. But one of my favorite Lupita Nyong’o roles was the lead in Jordan Peele’s Us.

Huge win for Apple here. Can’t wait to see how this series turns out.