“I didn’t kill her,” says Jake Gyllenhaal in the trailer for Presumed Innocent. His character, Deputy District Attorney Rusty Sabich, surely never thought he would have to say these words. He has a good job in the Chicago prosecutor’s office, an idyllic family, but when his co-worker is found brutally raped and murdered, he finds himself labeled as the main suspect.
If anyone has a feeling of déjà vu when reading the starting point, it is because the new Apple TV series is based on the best-seller by Scott Turow, which in 1990 was already made into a film with Harrison Ford in the lead role and direction. and the script by Alan J. Pakula, who wrote the text with Frank Pierson. Will it follow exactly the same plot and script twists as the book and the movie?
This time who is behind the cameras is David E. Kelley, an eminence of American television for his ability to impact the medium in two different stages of his career: in the 90s, when he dominated the conversation and the awards with The Lawyer and Ally McBeal, and then from 2017 with her resurrection with Big Little Lies with Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon. Since he returned to the forefront of Hollywood, he has also signed series such as The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers or The Lincoln Lawyer.
Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain), who also produces Presumed Innocent, stars Ruth Negga (Loving), O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale), Elizabeth Marvel (Homeland), Peter Sarsgaard (Dopesick), Bill Camp (The night of) and Renate Reinsve, the Norwegian actress who makes the leap to the American industry after The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier.
The eight-episode miniseries premieres next June 12 on Apple TV with the broadcast of the first two episodes.
