The new Apple TV+ series Cape Fear will star Javier Bardem, who also joins Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg as executive producers on the project.

Apple TV+  gave a series order to a series adaptation of “Cape Fear,” created by Nick Antosca and 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.

Per the official logline, “A storm is coming for happily married attorneys Amanda and Steve Bowden when Max Cady (Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison. In Cape Fear, 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. The 10-episode series is a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century.”

Bardem recently portrayed José Menéndez in Ryan Muphy’s Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menéndez Story, and also appeared in the recent ‘Dune’ films.

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