William Friedkin’s Final Film THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL With Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Clarke Gets a Premiere Date
The final film of iconic filmmaker William Friedkin, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, has been given a premiere date. The film will make its Paramount+ with Showtime debut on Friday, October 6th, and then get a linear airing that Sunday, Oct. 8th at 9/8c, on Showtime.
The movie will be based on the 1953 play by Herman Wouk, itself an adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Caine Mutiny. The story follows a naval officer who stands trial for mutiny after taking command from a ship captain he feels is acting in unstable fashion, endangering both the ship and its crew.
While the original story is set during World War II, Friedkin updated the story “so that is no longer Pearl Harbor. I’ve made it contemporary, involving the Gulf of Hormuz and the Straits of Hormuz, leading to Iran.”
The film has a great cast that includes Jason Clarke as the navel lawyer, Barney Greenwald, who is tasked with defending Lt. Steve Maryk, the first officer charged with mutiny. Jake Lacy takes on the role of Maryk, and they are joined by Kiefer Sutherland as Lt. Philip Francis Queeg, the beleaguered captain of the vessel, along with Monica Raymund, Lewis Pullman, Jay Duplass, Tom Riley, and the late Lance Reddick.
In the film, “At the start of a naval court-martial, Barney Greenwald (Clarke), a skeptical naval lawyer, reluctantly agrees to defend Lt. Steve Maryk (Lacy), a first officer of the Navy who took control of the U.S.S. CAINE from its domineering captain Lt. Philip Francis Queeg (Sutherland) during a violent sea storm in unfriendly waters. As the trial progresses, Greenwald becomes increasingly concerned and questions if the events aboard the Caine were a true mutiny or simply the courageous acts of a group of sailors who did not trust their unstable leader.”
This sounds like it’s going to be a great film and we won’t have to wait much longer before we get to watch it.