Monday 4/5/2021 at 3:00AM EDT Top row: Andy Garcia, Katey Sagal, Lex Scott Davis . Bottom row: James Lesure, John Corbett, Sam Palladio. The new ABC series Rebel comes from Grey's Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff and is based on the real life legal exploits of Erin Brockovich. The legal advocate was indelibly immortalized on screen by Julia Roberts's Oscar-winning performance in the 2000 Steven Soderbergh film Erin Brockovich, but the real-life Brockovich has continued fighting for people in need of legal protection and representation for decades now. The series will follow a fictionalized character inspired by Brockovich's life and cases, and features a stacked cast of TV veterans: