Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks for the lead role in Presumed Innocent, Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series based on Scott Turow’s 1987 novel that is being put together by TV super-producers David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies), J.J. Abrams (LOST) and Dustin Thomason (Castle Rock).
Variety reports that Gyllenhaal will play Rusty Sabich, the prosecutor accused of killing his close colleague after all the evidence begins to point in his direction.
Presumed Innocent revolves around “a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorneys’ office when one of its own is suspected of the crime [and explores] obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
A big screen adaptation of Presumed Innocent was released in 1990. Starring Harrison Ford and directed by All The President’s Men and To Kill A Moockingbird helmer Alan J. Pakula, it went on to gross a whopping $221 million at the worldwide box-office.
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