The final film of “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection” director William Friedkin, “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” will premiere on Paramount+ in all international markets where the service is currently live.
These include the UK, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and South Korea. In the U.S. the film is expected to premiere on Showtime.
Marking his first film since 2011, the project uses a 50-year-old play script written by Herman Woek which is based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.
The story follows Lt. Commander Queeg, a WW2 naval officer who stands trial for mutiny after taking command from a ship captain he feels is acting in an unstable fashion – endangering both the ship and its crew.
The story shifts the setting to contemporary times and the incident happening around the Gulf of Hormuz and the Straits of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean.
Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund, and Lance Reddick lead the cast. Annabelle Dunne and Matt Parker are producing.
Dunne revealed at the world premiere on Sunday that Guillermo Del Toro acted as a back-up director for Friedkin during the shoot.
