Oscar winners Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are executive producing a reimagining of the classic thriller Cape Fear for Universal. It’s a television project that also has Nick Antosca attached as creator, executive producer and showrunner.
Described as an unconventional take on the IP that draws from John D. MacDonald’s novel The Executioners and its 1962 and 1991 film adaptations, the Cape Fear series is a tense, contemporary thriller that examines America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century. In it, a storm is coming for a pair of married attorneys when an infamous killer from their past gets released after years in prison.
The 1962 film was directed by J. Lee Thompson from storyboards devised by original director Alfred Hitchcock and starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Polly Bergen. Scorsese directed the ’91 film, produced by Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, that starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange. In both previous versions, only the husband was a lawyer.
Showrunner Antosca, known for The Act, Hannibal, and Chucky, approached Universal about adapting the property.
Source: Deadline
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