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Apple TV+ has dropped the first official trailer for Cape Fear, a 10-episode limited series premiering June 5 that’s executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. The series stars Javier Bardem as Max Cady — a tattooed ex-convict who sets his sights on the attorneys he blames for putting him in prison.
Based on the 1957 John D. MacDonald novel The Executioner, the Max Cady role was made famous by Robert De Niro in the 1991 remake of Cape Fear that was directed by Scorsese and produced by Spielberg. The original 1962 film starred Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum.
In addition to the Academy Award-winning Bardem as Cady, the AppleTV+ adaptation will also star Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson as Anna and Tom Bowden, a happily married couple of lawyers who are terrorized by Cady upon his release from prison. There aren’t many actors who can fill De Niro’s shoes, but Bardem may be one of them.
Check out the official trailer and synopsis for Cape Fear, via AppleTV+, below.
AppleTV+ has released the first teaser for its Cape Fear series with Oscar winner Javier Bardem as Max Cady
“Inspired by the 1991 remake directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Steven Spielberg, a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Amy Adams) and Tom Bowden (Patrick Wilson) when Max Cady (Javier Bardem), the notorious killer they are responsible for putting behind bars, is let out of prison — and he wants vengeance.”
The series is created and showrun by Nick Antosca (A Friend of the Family, Brand New Cherry Flavor) and is described as a “Hitchcockian psychological thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime.”
The 10-episode series drops its first two episodes June 5 and runs weekly through July 31. The rest of the cast also Ron Perlman, Ted Levine, CCH Pounder, and Margarita Levieva.