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Rachel Brosnahan to Follow Up Superman With Presumed Innocent Season 2 Lead
One month out from her debut as intrepid reporter Lois Lane in James Gunn's highly anticipated Superman movie, Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan has landed a lead role in Season 2 of Apple TV+'s Presumed Innocent.
Brosnahan will also serve as an executive producer on Season 2, which is inspired by Dissection of a Murder, the debut legal thriller by Jo Murray (due in book stores July 2026).
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Details around the plot are thus far being kept under wraps… unless, of course, you go to the Dissection of a Murder publisher's website.
Apple TV+ renewed Presumed Innocent for a second season back in July 2024, weeks ahead of the Season 1 finale's release. The streamer noted at the time that Season 2 would 'revolve around a new case,' signaling that the legal drama series was becoming an anthology.
Season 1 — based on the Scott Turow bestseller that also inspired a 1990 movie version starring Harrison Ford — starred Jake Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich, a Los Angeles prosecutor accused of murdering his colleague and mistress. (Read TVLine's finale recap and review our list of lingering Season 1 questions.)
David E. Kelley will once again serve as showrunner on Presumed Innocent Season 2 alongside Erica Lipez. They and Brosnahan will exec-produce alongside Gyllenhaal, J.J. Abrams, Rachel Rusch Rich and Matthew Tinker , while Presumed Innocent author Scott Turow acts as a co-EP.
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