Yet Another Unneeded Streaming Remake

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This time, it's Cape Fear, which will be made into an Apple TV+ limited series. It's about an ex-con who sets about terrorizing the attorney responsible for putting him in jail and the attorney's family. The original black & white movie from the 1960s is a genre classic, with Robert Mitchum in one of his best roles as the villain and Gregory Peck as the hero. The film was remade in 1991 by Martin Scorsese, with a heavily tattooed, overacting Robert De Niro as the villain and Nick Nolte as the hero. That version got Oscar nominations for De Niro and Juliette Lewis (as Nolte's daughter). Both Peck and Mitchum had small roles in the remake.

This time around, the emphasis will be on the wife of the Peck/Nolte character, now being played by Amy Adams. Javier Bardem will play the villain. While Bardem is a natural for this type of role (probably closer to Mitchum's subtle villainy rather than De Niro's over-the-top looniness, I don't know that they can do in six hours that they couldn't do in two.

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And you can add The Boys from Brazil to that list. The 1978 movie featured Gregory Peck as Josef Mengele and Laurence Olivier (who got an Oscar nomination) as a Jewish Nazi-hunter. Steve Guttenberg had a small role. This will be a Netflix series with Jeremy Strong in the Olivier role. No word on any other casting. There was a series a couple of years back on Prime Video called Hunters with a similar theme featuring Al Pacino as the head of a group of Nazi hunters in New York in the 1970s.