We're in the golden age of reboots and remakes, and books are getting adapted and re-adapted left and right. When Presumed Innocent hit shelves in 1987, the rights to a film adaptation had already been purchased and Harrison Ford was set to star. Director Sydney Pollack knew he had a hit on his hands. Fast forward some 37 years and David E. Kelley, the former attorney turned showrunner responsible for high-quality hit shows like Boston Legal and Big Little Lies, has a new, more modern vision for Scott Turow's gripping novel. The idea, however, is better than the execution.
Though we could call it a reboot, the miniseries is meant to serve as a modern-day, cell-phones-and-all, adaptation of Turow's book. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Rozat "Rusty" Sabich, a renowned prosecutor who is charged with the gruesome murder of his colleague – and mistress – fellow prosecutor Carolyn Polhemus (Renate Reinsve). It doesn't take too much detective work to put Rusty in Carolyn's home on the night of the murder, prosecutor Tommy Molto (Peter Sarsgaard) is more than ready to put Rusty behind bars.
