Javier Bardem will star in “Cape Fear” Apple TV+ Series from Nick Antosca, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

Deadline reported that Apple TV+ has given a formal green light to ‘Cape Fear’ TV series, which will star Oscar Winner Javier Bardem, and will be produced by two legendary Oscar winners, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Bardem will also executive produce the series.

The show 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. Martin Scorsese later directed a remake in 1991, which was produced by Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment banner.

Created by Nick Antosca, the 10-episode series, described as a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st Century, 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.

Robert De Niro played Max in Scorsese’s 1991 remake.

Apple TV+, where Scorsese had a first-look TV deal and directed “Killers Of The Flower Moon”, and where Amblin Entertainment had produced “Masters of Air”, was the likely destination for the project to land. And indeed, The project quietly landed at Apple earlier this year where it underwent development and attached Bardem before earning a series green light.

The 1991 “Cape Fear” remake was originally developed by Spielberg, while Scorsese had been working on “Schindler’s List”. The two greats ended up swapping directing vehicles, with Spielberg remaining involved in ‘Cape Fear’ through his company Amblin Entertainment.