Hilary Swank to play an Alaska-based journalist in an ABC drama pilot from Spotlight's Tom McCarthy

Deadline

The two-time Oscar winner will also executive produce the potential series about a "star journalist who moves to Alaska for a fresh start after a career-killing misstep, and finds redemption personally and professionally joining a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage," reports Deadline. "The Untitled Alaska Project, which is one of the most high-profile network drama development projects of the season, will be written, directed and exec produced by Tom McCarthy through his Slow Pony production company." McCarthy, who recently helmed Stillwater, directed and co-wrote the 2016 investigative journalism film Spotlight, which won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. He also starred on the final season of The Wire as a morally challenged newspaper reporter for The Baltimore Sun.