Amy Adams To Star In & EP Apple TV+’s ‘Cape Fear’ Alongside Javier Bardem

Rosy Cordero

11 February 2025 at 12:00 pm·2-min read

Multi-Emmy and Academy Award nominee Amy Adams (Nightbitch, American Hustle) will star in and executive produces the Apple TV+ series Cape Fear, from Nick Antosca, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Adams will star opposite Javier Bardem who also exec produces.

Cape Fear is based on 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 — and the 1991 remake directed by Scorsese.

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

Gregory Peck and Polly Bergen and Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange played the married couple in the 1962 and 1991 Cape Fear films, respectively.

Hailing from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amblin Television, Alex Hedlund executive produces alongside Antosca for Eat The Cat; and Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey EP alongside Spielberg for Amblin Television. The series is developed and produced through Antosca’s overall deal at UCP, where he’s been based since 2017.

Adams is a six-time Academy Award Nominated actress who currently stars in Nightbitch which she produced through her company Bond Group Entertainment. She is upcoming in Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun for Sony and Kornel Mundruczó’s At the Sea. Her previous credits include Vice, Arrival, American Hustle, The Fighter, Sharp Objects, Enchanted, Disenchanted, The Master, Nocturnal Animals and Doubt. She is repped by Linden Entertainment, WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

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Amy Adams To Star In & EP Apple TV+’s ‘Cape Fear’ Alongside Javier Bardem

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