‘Presumed Innocent’ Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal Puts a Sinister Spin on a Charismatic Prosecutor
Erin Strecker
Jake Gyllenhaal is coming to TV.
The actor will produce and star in “Presumed Innocent,” an eight-part Apple TV+ series from Emmy-winning David E. Kelley and executive producer J.J. Abrams. Based on the bestselling 1987 novel by Scott Turow, the drama follows a “horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when one of its own is suspected of a crime,” per a press release. “The series explores obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Alongside Oscar- and Tony-nominee Gyllenhaal, who will portray the accused prosecutor Rusty Sabich, the series also stars Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, O-T Fagbenle, Chase Infiniti, Elizabeth Marvel, Nana Mensah, Renate Reinsve, Peter Sarsgaard and Kingston Rumi Southwick.
“Presumed Innocent” was previously turned into a popular movie starring Harrison Ford, becoming the eighth highest-grossing film of 1990(!). The film was followed by a television miniseries as well as a television film sequel, “Innocent,” in 2011. Clearly, this is a story of which people can’t get enough.
The new adaptation is clearly set in the present day, with cell phones galore. Presumably, there will be many other changes in this new, longer spin on the tale, sure to keep viewers guessing until the very end.
The Apple TV+ series will debut with two episodes on Wednesday June 12 followed by a new episode each Wednesday through July 24. Outside of one-offs (like Mr. Music on Netflix’s “Sack Lunch Bunch” comedy special) this is Gyllenhaal’s first proper role on TV. In support of this project, he hosted the season finale of “Saturday Night Live” on May 18.
A previous teaser trailer highlighted a man consumed by his love for a woman named Carolyn (Reinsve). “She woke something up inside me,” Gyllenhaal says as viewers come to realize there is a much darker twist in this alleged romance.
“Am I a suspect?” Gyllenhaal asks in the below trailer as his colleagues realize there was more to the duo’s relationship than he ever let on following Carolyn’s murder. “Because I did not kill her.”
“There’s not an ‘if.’ I will be arrested. They’re going to see I was obsessed with her.”
Watch the full trailer for the Apple TV+ limited series below.
