Rebecca Breeds will star as the FBI’s finest…

Silence of the Lambs sequel project Clarice has been ordered to series at CBS (via TVLine). Originals star Rebecca Breeds will take on the role Jodie Foster inhabited in Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning 1991 film, which was based on the bestselling book by Thomas Harris.

In Clarice, Breeds will star as Clarice Starling in the “untold, personal” story of what happened to the up and coming FBI agent following the events of Silence of the Lambs. Set one year after Dr Hannibal Lecter disappeared from her life, the story will follow Clarice as she returns to work “pursuing serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating Washington, D.C. politics.”

Kal Penn, Nick Sandow, Michael Cudlitz, Lucca De Oliveira and Devyn A. Tyler will star alongside Breeds in the show, which will begin production when it is safe to do so. Clarice is being written and executive-produced by Star Trek: Discovery‘s Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet.

“After more than 20 years of silence, we’re privileged to give voice to one of America’s most enduring heroes,” Kurtzman and Lumet said in a statement. “Clarice’s bravery and complexity have always lit the way, even as her personal story remained in the dark. But hers is the very story we need today: her struggle, her resilience, her victory. Her time is now, and always.”

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