In what looks as if a coup for Apple TV+, Academy Award winner Javier Bardem will tackle certainly one of cinema’s most iconic villain roles in a brand new collection adaptation of Cape Worry, in accordance with new stories. He’ll play Max Cady, after all. That’s the character made notorious in earlier movie variations by Robert Mitchum in 1962 and Robert De Niro in 1991. (And who may overlook Sideshow Bob’s model of Cady from The Simpsons‘ “Cape Feare” spoof episode in 1993.)
The announcement comes as Bardem makes waves along with his tv debut in Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
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Javier Bardem in Cape Worry collection on Apple TV+: He performs the villain, after all
Apple TV+ has greenlit a 10-episode collection promising to convey a contemporary perspective to the traditional thriller Cape Worry. It can discover America’s modern fascination with true crime, The Hollywood Reporter and different publications famous. The undertaking boasts a formidable pedigree, with each Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg serving as government producers. Scorsese, who directed the acclaimed 1991 movie model, definitely brings his understanding of the supply materials.
Nick Antosca, recognized for compelling true crime dramas A Pal of the Household and The Act, will function showrunner and author. The collection follows attorneys Amanda and Steve Bowden, whose lives are upended when Cady (Bardem) — a harmful legal from their previous — will get out of jail.
Followers of the older movie variations will get pleasure from seeing if the Spanish actor can fill Mitchum and De Niro’s sneakers (not honest to rely Sideshow Bob right here — due to his outsized clown sneakers, natch — however hat tip to Cult of Mac’s Ed Hardy for reminding me of the Simpsons episode). And Bardem would possibly simply pull it off. His flip as a cattle gun-wielding psycho with a nasty haircut within the Coen brothers’ No Nation for Previous Males thrilled and chilled audiences. And he gained an Oscar for it, too.
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Extra from big-time Apple TV+ collaborators
For Apple TV+ subscribers, this collection represents one other prestigious addition to the platform’s rising catalog. The undertaking reunites Apple with a number of profitable collaborators, together with Amblin Tv, contemporary off their triumph with Masters of the Air, and Scorsese, who lately delivered the Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon to the streaming service.
The collection attracts inspiration from John D. MacDonald’s novel The Executioners and its subsequent movie diversifications. It guarantees to ship a “tense, Hitchcockian thriller” up to date for contemporary audiences.
Bardem is at the moment engaged on one other Apple undertaking — the upcoming racing function F1, starring Brad Pitt. The brand new Cape Worry collection marks a major growth of his relationship with the iPhone big’s leisure division. UCP and Amblin Tv will produce the collection. Further government producers embrace Alex Hedlund, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey.
