Showtime has premiered the trailer for William Friedkin’s “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” the final film of the recently passed “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection” filmmaker.
The work originated as Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951 novel “The Caine Mutiny” which Wouk then adapted into a play in 1953, a film in 1954, a telemovie in 1955 and an Australian televised play in 1959.
Barney Greenwald (Jason Clarke), a skeptical lawyer, reluctantly defends naval executive officer Stephen Maryk (Jake Lacy) who took control of the USS Caine from its captain, Lt. Philip Francis Queeg (Kiefer Sutherland), while caught in a violent sea storm.
As the court-martial proceeds, however, Greenwald increasingly questions if it was truly a mutiny or rather the courageous acts of a group of sailors who could not trust their unstable leader.
Friedkin both wrote and directed this new take which marks both his last work and one of the final works of actor Lance Reddick who died earlier this year and plays the judge here.
It’s also the first film of the revived Republic Pictures label. “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” will stream October 6th on Paramount+ and Showtime.
