A man and a woman decide to spend the night together, even though he is married. “We’re two adults,” she suggests. “Can you be discreet?” Convinced to take the opportunity presented, he asks for the bill at the bar. and they go to his apartment, where they kiss passionately until dawn.

But what seems to have been only one affair, it will soon become his worst nightmare when she decides he won’t be able to get rid of her that easily. But how far will his obsession go?

This lot was the basis of the successful film fatal attraction, premiered in 1987 with Michael Douglas and Glenn Close as protagonists, and this year Paramount Studios decided to revive it in the form of an eight-part miniseries, the first three chapters of which can be seen on Monday 1 May on the platform of stream Paramount Plus.

In this new production, the roles of the original characters are retained, but this time the roles stand out Joshua Jackson (Dan Gallagher) Lisa Kaplan (Alex Forrest) and Amanda Pete (Beth, Dan’s wife).

According to its producers it is a profound reinvention of the cultural phenomenon that the film was Fatal attractiondirected by Adrian Lynethrough the lens of privilege, personality disorders, infidelity, family crisis and forced control.

The plot of the series takes place in the present time whenAfter serving 15 years in prison for the murder of Alexandra Forrest (Caplan), Daniel Gallagher (Jackson) is paroled to reconnect with his family and prove his innocence. In 2008, Dan first met Alex and his world began to fall apart after their brief affair threatened to destroy the life he had built with his wife, Beth (Peet).

James Dearden, who wrote the original film, is on the writing team along with Alexandra Cunningham. In 2013, the writer also gave up the rights to turn the plot into a play that premiered at the Royal Haymarket Theater (Westend, London).

although the 1987 film portrayed Alex’s final scene almost as the end of a horror movie, this time the writers have tried to give her empathy and turn Alex from a demon into a complicated woman. As reported by New York Times, Alexandra Cunningham wrote the part for Caplan because she believed the actress could “capture the character’s wit, intelligence, wit, instability, reactivity and rage. They are always all there at the same time.” And he suspected Caplan could make viewers sympathize with a woman they would otherwise condemn.

“I can find a lot of compassion for his loneliness,” Caplan said for this medium. “It wasn’t hard for me to feel for her, although of course I have a hard time defending some of the things that come after that.”

David Nevins, head of content for Paramount Plus, commented on the expected success of the series: “There’s a very timeless appeal to the themes of infidelity, why good people make foolish and problematic decisions.”, he said before deadline. “The writers They’ve come up with a clever way to make it very contemporary while still honoring the original.”

Other custom hits

This miniseries is ordinary the first project of those announced by Paramount who take their film successes as inspiration if flash dance (1983) and The Italian job (1969), whose stories are also being adapted to new formats from stream.