The New 'Cape Fear’s' Showrunner Got One Note From Martin Scorsese And Steven Spielberg (And We're So Happy He Listened)

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When I found out a TV adaptation of Cape Fear, one of the best horror movies ever, was getting made, I immediately wondered how it’d pay homage to the films that came before it. Along with that, when I found out Martin Scorsese, who directed the 1991 movie, and Steven Spielberg, who executive produced the film, were EPs on the show, I had to know how they influenced it. So, I asked Nick Antosca about the notes he got from the two legendary directors, and he told me about one I’m very happy he listened to.  Nick Antosca, the creator and showrunner of Apple TV’s critically acclaimed Cape Fear, worked with Spielberg and Scorsese on this show because they are all executive producers on it. When I asked him about the notes he got from the Jaws and Goodfellas directors, he recalled one vital one that helped tie this new program back to the movies that came before it.

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00:00Every time the credits rolled and I would see Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg's name, like I would just feel

00:04like a presence and a weight with the show.

00:06I was curious, what was the most valuable note they gave you that helped you as you were creating this?

00:10They give a lot of valuable notes and support.

00:14Early on, both Scorsese and Spielberg said it was very it was important to use the Bernard Herrmann music in

00:22some way and make it a character in the show and part of the DNA of the show.

00:26We had always wanted to do that.

00:27Our composer, Jeff Russo, had been working with the Bernard Herrmann score and and we're going to find ways to

00:35make it very present in the story and organic and also have original music, too, because there's only a movie's

00:45worth of the of the Herrmann cues.

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