The legendary director traded away this script to win his first directing Oscar.
Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg is finally returning to the story he gave up to direct his most iconic film., a limited series inspired by the 1991 thriller of the same name that Spielberg, 79, traded to Martin Scorsese, 83, forCourtesy of Apple The new 10-episode series will star Javier Bardem in Robert De Niro’s leading role as Max Cady, a newly released convicted killer who seeks revenge on his public defenders, whom he blames for his 14-year prison sentence.
after each decided that they could not continue the project they were working on at Universal Pictures. In 1991, Scorsese and Spielberg traded the scripts to"Schindler's List" and"Cape Fear," giving them both the type of directing success they needed.The Last Temptation of Christ , and Spielberg wanted to finally win his first directing Oscar after finishing a run of commercial successes withSpielberg won seven Oscars for his historical Holocaust drama, including his first for Best Director, and Scorsese made more than six times his film’s budget at the box office. Spielberg, who produced the original 1991 film, executive produces the new series alongside Scorsese.Spielberg and Scorsese are both executive producers of the new limited series, which is helmed byIn the new series, Bardem, 57, returns to the psychopathic character acting that won him his Oscar for. The trailer shows him laughing maniacally, tracking the Bowden family like prey, and putting his public defenders on a trial of his own design.Courtesy of Apple “What is your worst fear?” Cady asks in the trailer, echoing his iconic line as Anton Chigurh, “What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss?” Whereas in the film Cady hunts down one lawyer, the new series pits the psychopathic predator against a lawyer couple Anna and Tom Bowden, played by Oscar nominee Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson. Despite representing Cady, the Bowdens hid evidence that may have absolved the convict because they were so appalled by his crimes.Newly released from prison, Cady works within the law to hunt and psychologically torture the lawyers who put him behind bars. The killer forces the Bowdens to consider the lengths—legal and otherwise—that they will go to protect their family. The new thriller series will stream on Apple TV beginning on June 5, and subsequent episodes will release every Friday.
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