PremiumSteven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese team up for a Cape Fear reboot series
Legendary directors Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are teaming up for a TV re-imagining of the classic Cape Fear. They will be joined by The Act director Nick Antosca in running the project.
Last Updated: 03.48 AM, Nov 23, 2023
Directorial elite, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are teaming up for a thrilling TV endeavor, a reboot series of the 1962 original and its 1991 adaptation, Cape Fear. In their first TV joint venture, Scorsese and Spielberg will be executively producing, along with their company Amblin Entertainment.
The upcoming TV reimagining of Cape Fear, according to Deadline, will be 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 series’ plot already slightly differs from the source, John D. MacDonald’s The Executioners (1957), as well as its 1962 film, directed by J. Lee Thompson and the 1991 one, initially headed by Steven Spielberg but later handed to Martin Scorsese when they swapped projects, Cape Fear for Schindler’s List. In the original story, only the husband was a lawyer.
Spielberg and Scorsese will be joined by Brand New Cherry Flavor creator Nick Antosca, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Amblin Television, and UCP, a unit of Universal Studio Group, in producing the project. However, unlike erstwhile fears over what the TV marketplace may look like post WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the Cape Fear series has become a hot commodity for the studios, inviting high-profile bidding.
Though no bidding studio has been finalized yet, the project has shown that a strong project package will have no difficulty in finding a buyer in the market. Streaming giants like Peacock, Apple TV+, Hulu, Netflix, HBO are some of the potential bidders who have popular previous project affiliations with either Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Nick Antosca, or the production houses.