Apple TV+ has officially given the green light to Cape of feara television series executive produced by two Academy Award winners, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. They are joined by a third, Javier Bardem, who will star and executive produce.
Created by Nick Antosca (the law), Cape of fear The film is based on John D. MacDonald's novel The Executioners — which inspired a 1962 feature film of the same name directed by J. Lee Thompson from storyboards created by original director Alfred Hitchcock — as well as the 1991 remake directed by Scorsese.
In the 10-episode series, which is described as a tense Hitchcockian thriller about America's obsession with true crime in the 21st century, a storm brews for happily married lawyers Amanda and Steve Bowden when Max Cady (played by Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, He gets out of prison.
This is a slight departure from MacDonald's book and the films in which only the husband is the lawyer.
In the two features, Max was played by Robert Mitchum (1962) and Robert De Niro (1991). The pair were played by Gregory Peck and Polly Bergen and Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange, respectively.
the Cape of fear The TV series hails from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amblin Television – siblings/divisions of Universal Pictures, the studio behind both films, and Amblin Entertainment, which produced the 1991 film.
Spielberg, who produced the 1991 film, Scorsese and Antosca will executive produce alongside Alex Hedlund on Eat The Cat; Darrell Frank and Justin Falvey will executive produce alongside Spielberg for Amblin Television.
Take out the UCP Cape of fear series a year ago with Antosca, Spielberg and Scorsese attached. As Deadline reported at the time, Apple TV+, where Scorsese had a first-look TV deal and had just directed Moonflower Killers And where Amblin Television was just produced Air masterswas considered a possible destination.
In fact, the project quietly arrived on Apple TV+ earlier this year as it underwent development and Bardem was attached before the series got the green light.
Bardem also has an existing relationship with Apple, and will appear in Apple Original Films. F1, It is scheduled to premiere in theaters around the world on June 25, 2025.
The series was developed and produced through Antosca's overall deal with UCP. Antosca, a big fan of both Cape of fear Since childhood, he has approached Universal about adapting the property through UCP where he has resided for the past eight years, most recently as an executive producer on the USA/Syfy/UCP series Chuckybased on the popular horror film series.
1991 Cape of fear The remake was originally developed by Spielberg, while Scorsese worked on it Schindler's List. The greats ended up exchanging directing vehicles, with Spielberg remaining involved Cape Viar through his company Amblin Entertainment.
