Prime Video’s forensic crime thriller Scarpetta is expanding its roster for Season 2. The series, which premiered on March 11 and has since drawn 34 million viewers in its first 28 days, has announced a wave of new recurring cast members as production gets underway in Nashville.
Joining the series are Jerod Haynes, Michael “Killer Mike” Render, David Arquette, Jodi Balfour, William Zabka, Stella Baker, Kim Dickens, Troy Garity, and Holland Taylor.
They join returning series leads Nicole Kidman as medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, Jamie Lee Curtis as her sister Dorothy Farinelli, Ariana DeBose as Kay’s niece Lucy Farinelli, Bobby Cannavale as Detective Pete Marino, and Simon Baker as FBI profiler Benton Wesley. The series operates across two timelines, with Rosy McEwen, Amanda Righetti, Jake Cannavale, and Hunter Parrish portraying the younger versions of Kidman, Curtis, Cannavale, and Baker’s characters in the 1990s-set storyline.
Season 2 is expected to pick up directly from Season 1’s cliffhanger finale. Showrunner Liz Sarnoff has confirmed the new installment will again split between past and present timelines, with the present-day story continuing from where the first season left off. The season is also expected to draw from two novels in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta book series, Cruel and Unusual and The Body Farm.
Developed and written by Sarnoff, Scarpetta is executive produced by Kidman through Blossom Films, Curtis through Comet Pictures, Jason Blum through Blumhouse Television, and Cornwell through P&S Projects, among others. A premiere date for Season 2 has not yet been announced.
Among the notable new additions are Zabka, best known for playing Johnny Lawrence across The Karate Kid franchise and Cobra Kai; Emmy-winning Holland Taylor, who recently appeared on The Morning Show and will next be seen in the Apple TV+ comedy Brothers alongside Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson; and Grammy-winning rapper Killer Mike, who recently recurred on FX’s The Lowdown and has film credits including Baby Driver and ATL. Haynes, notably, is also set to appear in Michael B. Jordan’s Muhammad Ali series The Greatest at Prime Video.