PRESUMED INNOCENT Season 2 Will Leave Scott Turow Universe and Will Adapt DISSECTION OF A MURDER
The Apple TV+ limited series Presumed Innocent did not have a blueprint for a second season, but after finding so much success, the legal thriller is branching out to tell another story in Season 2.
Season 1 was based on Scott Turow’s bestselling novel of the same name, but there was no obvious path to continue the series from Turow’s body of work.
Season 2 of the show, executive produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams and Season 1 star Jake Gyllenhaal and co-exec produced by Turow, is taking a completely different path with a female lead, Leila Reynolds, succeeding Gyllenhaal’s Rusty Sabich.
Apple TV+ and producing studio Warner Bros. TV have acquired the rights to Dissection of a Murder, the upcoming debut legal thriller by Jo Murray.
The book, set for a spring 2026 publication by Pam Macmillan, “follows Leila Reynolds who has just been handed her first murder case. She’s way out of her depth but the defendant only wants her – and to make matters worse, her husband is the prosecutor. Soon Leila is fighting to keep her own secrets buried too.”
Things are still in flux, but Dissection of a Murder is expected to serve as inspiration for the second season of what is shaping up to be a true anthology series. There had been an idea for a character or two from Season 1 to carry over for continuity in the vein of HBO’s The White Lotus; it is unclear whether that is still a possibility.
via: Deadline