Lifetime has set its sights on Nellie Bly for their next made for TV movie — and they’ll be tackling her story with the help of actress Christina Ricci.

Variety reports that actresses Christina Ricci and Judith Light have officially signed on to star in Lifetime’s upcoming movie based on one of journalist Nellie Bly’s most infamous stories.

Bly, who’s real name was Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, is regarded by many as a pioneer of investigative journalism.

Though famous for her stunt journalism, and her trip around the world in 72 days, one of Bly’s most notable works deals with uncovering the mistreatment of patients in New York’s Women’s Lunatic Asylum.

Bly, who started out reporting on theater and arts in the 19th century, eventually took the undercover assignment at the Women’s Lunatic Assignment after a fateful meeting with Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World newspaper. As part of the piece, Bly went undercover, feigning insanity, in order to uncover the horrendous treatment of the women who lived in the asylum on Blackwell’s Island.

It’s Bly’s undercover assignment, which was later published in book form as Ten Days in a Mad-House, that’ll be the focus of Lifetime’s upcoming movie.

Ricci will play Bly in the Lifetime feature, which is said to “deliver a fictionalized account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay” on Blackwell’s Island.

Meanwhile, Light will play Matron Grady, the head nurse at the asylum who tortures patient into submission.

It’s a bit shocking that it’s taken someone at Hollywood this long to green light a movie about Nellie Bly. Though respected as a pioneer in her field, she’s also regarded by many as a hero for helping pave the way for many female journalists that came after her.

Though we’ll be curious to see what Ricci does with the role in Lifetime’s movie, we’re still holding out hope that someday we’ll see a full-blown Nellie Bly biopic on the big screen.

Lifetime’s Nellie Bly movie is set to premiere sometime in 2018.