Chris evans will star in "defending jacob", the next apple series

According to information published by Variety magazine late last week, actor Chris Evans, best known for playing the character "Captain America, " would have joined the next series commissioned by Apple. This is Defending Jacob , and would respond to the direct request of the company, interested in producing a new dramatic series for its hypothetical future streaming video service.

Defending Jacob, Apple's next bet with Chris Evans at the helm

Best known for his role as Captain America, actor Chris Evans has not had a regular television role in nearly two decades. It was in 2000, when he appeared in the miniseries "Opposite Sex". Since then, fame came to him for his role as a comic book superhero in different titles released under the Marvel label.

The new Apple series 'Defending Jacob' is based on the novel of the same name released in 2012 and written by William Landay. Here is the summary of that novel which is supposed to be the plot of the production:

When they discover the corpse of Ben Rifkin, just fourteen years old, in the middle of the forest with three stab wounds to the chest, the paradisiacal community of Newton loses his innocence at once. Assistant District Attorney Andy Barber handles a case that becomes a priority. However, when his son Jacob, Ben's classmate, is accused of the crime, Andy will not only lose his job, but he will see how the world that he has worked so hard to build begins to falter.

Defending Jacob is a masterful legal thriller in which William Landay questions the limits of a judicial system in which children are treated as adults, but at the same time, it is a superb psychological novel about parental devotion, which raises the chilling question that no parent wants to answer: to what extent do we know our children? (House of the book)

“Defend Jacob” (this is the title in Spanish of this bestseller published in Spain by La Esfera de los Libros), it is just one more title that Apple has already commissioned, including a series based on the novel “Are you sleeping? " It will have the participation of Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul among others, as well as an adaptation of The Foundation , by Isaac Asimov.