Max Cady is back and is still looking to settle the score. Apple TV+ has greenlit a Cape Fear TV series that will star Javier Bardem as the convicted rapist who becomes obsessed with seeking revenge against the lawyer who sent him to jail.

The show was created by Nick Antosca (The Act), based on John D. MacDonald’s novel The Executioner. Bardem will be an executive producer along with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.

Bardem has shown great skill in playing intimidating villains, including winning an Oscar for his role as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. He also memorably played James Bond villain Silva in Skyfall.

The 10-episode series will be a Hitchcockian thriller that also explores the current popularity of true crime as entertainment. In this version, both Steve and Amanda Bowden are attorneys, enjoying a happy life until Max Cady gets out of prison and singled-mindedly focuses on revenge.

This is the third adaptation of MacDonald’s The Executioners, but it is the first TV series. J. Lee Thompson directed the first Cape Fear movie in 1962, based on storyboards by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, and Polly Bergen. Scorsese directed the Cape Fear movie remake in 1991, starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, and Juliette Lewis.

The Cape Fear TV series does not currently have a release window or other casting news.