Tag: robert de niro

The original “Cape Fear” from 1962 starred Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck (and ironically enough came out the same year as his iconic turn in“To Kill A Mockingbird”) was meant to be remade by Steven Spielberg. However, after working on the script for a while he decided he’d rather work on “Schindler’s List” but unfortunately the rights were owned by Martin Scorsese. Luckily for him Scorsese was willing to trade and threw himself into the scripting. Let’s see how it turned out and where it’s better or worse than the original.