“Captain Marvel” actress is set to star in and executive produce the series “Lessons in Chemistry” for the Apple TV+ platform.
The project, based on an upcoming novel by Bonnie Garmus, has been given a straight to series order. Susannah Grant (“Erin Brockovich”) is adapting the novel and will serve as showrunner.
The series is set in the early 1960s and centers on Elizabeth Zott (Larson), whose dreams of being a scientist are rebuffed. When she finds herself pregnant, alone and fired from her lab, she takes a job hosting a TV cooking show.
She then sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives – and the men who are suddenly listening – more than recipes while craving a return to the lab.
Grant and Larson will executive produce with Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan. The project is separate from another Apple series, an untitled CIA drama based on the experiences of real-life agency operative Amaryllis Fox, which Larson is attached to.
Source: The Live Feed