Cobie Smulders to Star in ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Spinoff as Netflix Fast-Tracks Development on New Series | Just Jared - Celebrity News and Gossip

Cobie Smulders is set to lead a new spinoff of The Lincoln Lawyer!

The 44-year-old How I Met Your Mother star is being tapped to reprise her role from the flagship series, Mickey Haller’s half-sister Artemisia “Emi” Finch, according to Deadline.

Cobie first appeared as Emi in the season four finale of The Lincoln Lawyer, and that lead in to set the scene for the show’s upcoming fifth and final season. She will reprise the role as a series regular in season five.

The new spinoff is being written by Lincoln Lawyer EPs Ted Humphrey, Dailyn Rodriguez, and Matthew J Lieberman, who “spent some time honing in the concept.”

After pitching it to Netflix, per Deadline, the streamer bought the project in the room and commissioned a script for a quick turnaround.

The spinoff is looking to shoot in Los Angeles if it qualifies for a California tax credit, and a green light is “believed to be contingent on closing deals with all key auspices.” The process is still ongoing, and the show is not officially picked up yet.

Here’s a synopsis for The Lincoln Lawyer season five:

Mickey Haller’s (Manuel Garcia Rulfo) world is upended when the half-sister he never knew existed, Emi (Cobie Smulders), comes to him with a plea to help free a wrongfully convicted woman. In a season defined by blood ties and buried secrets, Mickey takes on a grueling habeas petition to overturn a six-year-old murder conviction, but the deeper he digs the more nefarious the forces arrayed against him become. Meanwhile, the stakes rise for his trusted team as Lorna (Becki Newton), Izzy (Jazz Raycole), and Cisco (Angus Sampson) step up to tackle high-profile challenges of their own. Having just saved himself from a wrongful conviction in Season 4, Mickey is now determined to set right an enormous miscarriage of justice. But as he unravels a dangerous web of corruption and lies, he must grapple with the fractured legacy of his family — both his chosen family and the family he never knew he had.

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