Scarpetta (2026)

After decades of attempts that led nowhere, Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling novels have been brought to the screen, with Nicole Kidman playing the author’s protagonist, renowned pathologist Kay Scarpetta. She shares the role with Rosy McEwen, who plays the title character back in the 90s, as Scarpetta’s current case, the murder of a woman who was found naked, bound, and with no hands, is eerily reminiscent of her first serial killer case as chief medical officer of Virginia. Back then she and her partner/brother-in-law Peter Marino (played by Bobby Cannavale in the present and his son Jake Cannavale in the past) claimed the evidence pointed to Matt Peterson (Anson Mount), the husband of one victim, but the new case casts doubts on their original work. There’s no doubt though that Nicole is as sexy as ever, especially when she shows some side butt in the shower. Along for the ride are a cleavage-heavy Jamie Lee Curtis, plus Ariana DeBose as Jamie’s tech-savvy widowed daughter, who shares some steamy sapphic smooches with Tiya Sircar. But none of them are the answer to who dun gone nude in this whodunnit.