Cobie Smulders to Star in Lincoln Lawyer Spinoff at Netflix
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- Netflix has a "The Lincoln Lawyer" spinoff starring Cobie Smulders in early development, centered on her character Artemisia "Emi" Finch — Mickey Haller's half-sister.
- Emi Finch debuted in the Season 4 finale in February and is set to return in the upcoming fifth and final season of the parent series.
- Season 5 is based on Michael Connelly's novel "Resurrection Walk," will run 10 episodes, and follows Emi asking Mickey to help free a wrongfully convicted woman via a habeas petition to overturn a six-year-old murder conviction.
- The spinoff script is being written by Ted Humphrey, Dailyn Rodriguez, and Matthew J. Lieberman, with A+E Studios producing.
- David E. Kelley created the original series; Ted Humphrey developed it and serves as executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Dailyn Rodriguez, with Connelly, Ross Fineman, Barry Jossen, Tana Jamieson and Matthew J. Lieberman also executive producing.
- Netflix declined Variety's request for comment on the spinoff news Wednesday.
Why it matters: A spinoff keeps Netflix's legal-drama pipeline alive just as "The Lincoln Lawyer" wraps with its fifth and final season, handing Cobie Smulders' Emi Finch — introduced only in the Season 4 finale — a franchise to anchor once Manuel Garcia Rulfo's Mickey Haller exits.
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