Presumed Innocent 2: key data
– The second season was confirmed by Apple TV Plus on July 12
– Jake Gyllenhaal will return as govt producer, however he’s not been confirmed to be starring in it once more as Rusty Sabich
– Peter Sarsgaard is unlikely to be returning, as he stated “he’s not considering sequels…I’m a one-season particular person”
– Season two will “will unfold round a suspenseful, brand-new case”, though it’d take inspiration from the 2 Scott Turow follow-up novels, The Burden of Proof and Innocent, or his new novel, Presumed Guilty, which comes out January 2025
– Executive producer J.J. Abrams – who can also be onboard for season 2 – stated: “We’re very excited concerning the prospects we’re discussing”
Such was the success of Presumed Innocent, Apple TV Plus’ darkish and twisting adaptation of the Scott Turow ebook of the identical title, that the primary season hadn’t even ended earlier than it landed a recommission from the streamer.
And whereas viewers had but to search out out whether or not Rusty Sabich (Jake Gyllenhaal) did or didn’t homicide his mistress, the announcement on July 12 was cheering information for followers of the gripping crime procedural drama.
Now the story has formally wrapped up – and Forbes claims it’s been the streamers most-watched drama of all time – let’s look ahead to the second sequence. This article will clarify the whole lot it’s essential to know, from what to anticipate from the plot (together with what Turow ebook it’s primarily based on), new forged lists, when it’s more likely to be out, and, when it drops, the trailer.
Presumed Innocent 2: does it have a launch date?
With the primary season of the drama solely ending on the finish of July 2024, we wouldn’t anticipate to see something till the very earliest on the finish of 2025.
Presumed Innocent 2: is there a trailer but?
New season. New case.Presumed Innocent has been renewed for season 2. pic.twitter.com/FeKFmAWueiJuly 12, 2024
Again, it’s not going to take a district lawyer to work out {that a} trailer received’t be anticipated till a couple of weeks earlier than the launch of season two.
Presumed Innocent 2: has a forged been confirmed?
Here’s the place issues get fascinating. Despite Gyllenhaal enjoying the lead on this sequence, it’s not been instantly confirmed if he’s starring within the comply with up, though this may occasionally change. He is, nonetheless, staying on as govt producer, alongside J.J. Abrams, Rachel Rusch Rich, Dustin Thomason, Matthew Tinker, David E. Kelley and Scott Turow.
One one that is probably not returning is Gyllenhaal’s real-life brother in regulation, Peter Sarsgaard, who performed Tommy Molto. He informed IndieWire in August 2024: “I’m probably not that considering sequels. I believe I’ve solely ever executed one season of something… I believe I’m a one-season particular person.”
Which can be a disgrace, because the director Greg Yaitanes informed Variety that being brothers-in-law gave the actors a particular connection on set: “What it did present was that there was a security and belief and love there, which I believe is essential to go so far as they did — and into nuance as a lot as they did.”
J.J. Abrams added to Deadline: “I’ll say that watching Peter Sarsgaard convey that character to life was such a pleasure. He’s such a exceptional actor.”
Presumed Innocent 2: what do we all know concerning the plot?
Apple TV Plus’ official – however very imprecise – synopsis is that season two “will unfold round a suspenseful, brand-new case”.
Even one of many exec producers, J.J. Abrams, stated that the workforce didn’t actually issue seeding storylines in for a season two within the authentic sequence, telling Deadline in July 2024: “We mentioned the opportunity of a second season throughout manufacturing, however then Apple introduced it as much as us in put up. Nothing was ever shot to arrange a second season. Our focus was telling the story of Carolyn’s homicide and Rusty’s trial, and wrapping that up on the finish of the primary season.”
He added: “It’s too early to speak about what would possibly occur in season 2, however we’re very excited concerning the prospects we’re discussing.”
We know that Turow wrote a few follow-up novels to Presumed Innocent referred to as The Burden of Proof (1990) which then follows Sandy Stern after the occasions on the finish of Presumed Innocent. And in 2010, there was Innocent, which sees Sabich having (one other!) affair, and he’s accused of the homicide of his spouse.
Then, in August 2024, it was introduced that Turow can be releasing one other ebook from his hit literary multiverse, Presumed Guilty, which is able to hit bookshops on January 14, 2025. The case will return again to Rusty Sabich, now a retired choose, as he returns to the courtroom one final time in hopes of maintaining his associate’s son out of jail, when the younger man turns into a suspect in a missing-person case.
But we’re but to search out out whether or not any of those will type the idea for the following season, or whether or not the writers might be given full inventive licence to go off the literary piste.
For extra Apple TV Plus-related protection, learn our guides on Severance season 2, Ted Lasso season 4, and Slow Horses season 5.
