Jake Gyllenhaal may have innocently kept that red scarf from that very first week, but in a new trailer for his new Apple TV+ series, his character Rusty Sabich is suspected of a serious crime.
On Wednesday, Apple TV+ released the trailer for Presumed Innocent, an eight-episode limited series out June 12 that follows Gyllenhaal’s Chicago prosecutor character as he’s confronted and accused of playing a role in the murder of his colleague.
The trailer follows Rusty Sabich as he’s informed of a woman named Carolyn who was found dead and as he’s prosecuted for her killing. “Were you and Carolyn romantically involved?” the prosecutors ask Rusty as steamy sex scenes play.
“Am I a suspect?” Rusty asks. “Because I did not kill her.”
As the trailer continues, Rusty’s complex relationship with Carolyn as new evidence shows up as he faces dozens of questions about the death. “I didn’t kill her,” he repeats throughout the episode more than a dozen times.
Presumed Innocent is based on Scott Turow’s 1987 novel. If the prosecutor-accused-of-killing-his-colleague premise sounds familiar, Harrison Ford starred as that prosecutor in a 1990 film of the same name.
Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, O-T Fagbenle, Chase Infiniti, Elizabeth Marvel, Nana Mensah, Renate Reinsve, Peter Sarsgaard, and Kingston Rumi Southwick also act in the show, executive produced by J.J. Abrams.
“The series explores obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together,” reads the show’s synopsis.
New episodes for the show will be released every Wednesday through July 24 after the first two episodes drop on June 12.
