‘Cape Fear’: Javier Bardem To Star In Apple TV+ Series From Nick Antosca, Martin Scorsese & Steven Spielberg
deadline.comApple TV+ has given a formal green light to Cape Fear, a TV series executive produced by two Oscar 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 Act), Cape Fear is based on both John D.
MacDonald’s novel “The Executioners” — which inspired the 1962 feature of the same name directed by J. Lee Thompson from storyboards devised by original director Alfred Hitchcock — as well as the 1991 remake directed by Scorsese.
In the 10-episode series, described as a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century, a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Amanda and Steve Bowden when Max Cady (played by Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison.
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