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However, the new trailer reveals that the Apple TV Cape Fear remake series will be a little more like the original novel and add in some aspects that wasn’t in the book or the two other movie adaptations.
Apple TV’s Cape Fear Looks Like a Very Different Adpatation
In the John D. MacDonald novel, The Executioners, Sam Bowden was an attorney who catches a brutal sex offender named Max Cady raping a young girl and he testifies against Cady, helping send him to prison for 14 years. In the 1962 movie, Sam Bowden also testified against Max, sending him to prison for eight years for rape. In the Martin Scorsese movie, Sam Bowden was the public defender who hid evidence to ensure his client was convicted of his crimes, sending him to prison for 14 years. In all three cases, Max gets out and wants revenge.
However, the new Apple TV Cape Fear trailer shows there is something darker in store for the viewers. While Max Cady was a rapist and sex offender in the other three adaptations, the Apple TV series reveals the man is a “notorious killer” that Tom Bowden and his wife Anna helped put away. In this series, both Tom (renamed from Sam) and his wife are attorneys and both and something to do with Max being put in prison. That means he has a grudge against both of the Bowden’s. Furthermore, making Max a killer from the outset makes him even more dangerous than the other movies, where Max developed into a killer as the story wore on.
