Alfonso Cuarón has been working on the Apple TV limited series “Disclaimer,” starring Cate Blanchett, for almost three years.
Blanchett had originally said that “Disclaimer” was “really more like [shooting] SEVEN movies.” How intriguing. Cuaron paralleled her thoughts by likening the series to a “seven-hour-long movie.”
Based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Renée Knight, this was a massive undertaking that, as I had previously reported, took around 280 days to shoot. Filming for the series had begun in June 2022 and wrapped in March 2023. Emmanuel Lubezki and Bruno Delbonnel are also sharing DP duties.
We now have our first teaser, which doesn’t give us much but further whets our appetites for this thing. All seven episodes, written and directed by Cuaron, will premiere at the Venice Film Festival. This might be the one project, film or TV, that I’m most looking forward to this fall.
“Disclaimer” seems to touch upon the current zeitgeist, one filled with division and hate. It “delivers an ominous warning to viewers in its very title”. Blanchett stars as a powerful journalist who finds troubling details from her own secret past inside the pages of a lurid novel. Kevin Kline is the loner author who publishes it, eager to inflict not just pain, but also humiliation on the woman he believes caused his own loss and sorrows.
This is Cuarón’s first project since 2018’s Oscar-winning “Roma.” Cuarón’s reputation is that of one of the great filmmakers of the 21st Century with films on his resume such as “Children of Men,” “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and “Gravity”.
“Disclaimer” hits Apple TV+ on October 11.