It looks like Martin Scorsese is heading back to the Cape: Deadline reports that Scorsese and Steven Spielberg have teamed with “Channel Zero” creator Nick Antosca for a new CAPE FEAR series that’ll take a new approach.
“Cape Fear” marks the first ever TV collaboration for Scorsese and Spielberg, who are executive producing the project from creator, executive producer and showrunner Nick Antosca (“Brand New Cherry Flavor,” Antlers).The series is described as a “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.”
In every version of the story so far, the plot sees a lawyer’s family tormented by the criminal he helped put in prison.
Deadline also shares that “Antosca has reportedly been obsessed with both Cape Fear movies since childhood and approached Universal about adapting the property through UCP where he has been based for the past seven years.”