Amy Adams will star in Apple TV+'s Cape Fear

Amy Adams, nominated for multiple Emmys and Academy Awards, stars in the Apple TV+ series Cape Fear. The series comes from Nick Antosca, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Adams stars opposite Javier Bardem, who, like Adams, also produces.



The ten-part series, which was greenlit in November, is described as a suspenseful, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America's obsession with true crime in the 21st century. In Cape Fear, a storm is brewing for happily married lawyers Amanda (Adams, pictured) and Steve Bowden when Max Cady (played by Bardem), a notorious murderer from their past, is released from prison.

Adams has been nominated six times for an Academy Award and currently stars in Nightbitch, which she produced through her company Bond Group Entertainment. She can soon be seen in Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun for Sony and Kornel Mundruczó's At the Sea. Her previous film roles include Vice, Arrival, American Hustle, The Fighter, Enchanted, Disenchanted, The Master, Nocturnal Animals and Doubt.

On the television front, Adams starred in HBO's limited series Sharp Objects and had guest-starring roles on NBC's The Office, HBO's The West Wing and The WB's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among others.

Cape Fear is based on the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald - which inspired the 1962 feature film of the same name directed by J. Lee Thompson from storyboards devised by original director Alfred Hitchcock - and the 1991 remake directed by Scorsese.

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