Disclaimer | Alfonso Cuarón thriller series stars Cate Blanchett & Kevin Kline

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Apple orders multi-Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón’s thriller series “Disclaimer,” starring Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline

Apple TV+ has ordered “Disclaimer,” a new original series from the multi-Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-winning director, writer, producer, cinematographer and editor Alfonso Cuarón (Golden Lion Award-winning “Roma,” “Gravity,” “Children of Men") through his production company Esperanto Filmoj. The psychological thriller will star multi-award-winning and internationally acclaimed actors Cate Blanchett (“Don’t Look Up,” “Nightmare Alley,” “Pinocchio”), who will also executive produce, and Kevin Kline (“The Starling,” “Beauty and the Beast,” Broadway’s “Present Laughter”), who is making his series debut. Cuarón will write, direct and executive produce the series.

Based on the novel of the same name by Renee Knight, “Disclaimer” will star Blanchett as Catherine Ravenscroft, a successful and respected television documentary journalist whose work has been built on revealing the concealed transgressions of long-respected institutions. When an intriguing novel written by a widower (played by Kline) appears on her bedside table, she is horrified to realize she is a key character in a story that she had hoped was long buried in the past. A story that reveals her darkest secret. A secret she thought was hers alone.

The series will be the first project to debut from a multi-year deal with Cuarón, who is developing television series exclusively for Apple TV+, and it joins Apple’s award-winning series slate. It also marks first time Cuarón has written and directed all episodes of an original series. Cuarón currently serves as producer on Apple Original Film “Raymond and Ray,” which is now in production from Apple Studios.

“Disclaimer” is produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Anonymous Content. Academy Award winner Emmanuel Lubezki (“Gravity,” “Birdman,” “The Revenant”) and Academy Award nominee Bruno Delbonnel (“The Tragedy of Macbeth,” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Darkest Hour”) will serve as directors of photography on the project. Cuarón serves as executive producer alongside Esperanto Filmoj’s Gabriela Rodriguez and Anonymous Content’s David Levine, Dawn Olmstead and Steve Golin. Blanchett executive produces and Renee Knight serves as co-executive producer.

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Alfonso Cuaron? I'm there. Blanchett and Kline? Makes it much sweeter.

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Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer Is A Knotty Mystery About ‘How Narratives Can Be Manipulated’

Any time Alfonso Cuarón presents new work, you know it’ll be immersive, immediate, and a sensory experience. The man behind everything from Children Of Men and Gravity, to Roma and Y Tu Mamá También (and, yes, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban) has become one of the most prevalent and defining voices of 21st century cinema. Now, get ready for a different mode of Cuarón – a filmmaker in longform, presenting his incoming Apple TV+ drama Disclaimer. When he read Renée Knight’s 2015 novel of the same name, he knew he wanted to bring it to the screen. But it required a different treatment to his previous work.

“I didn’t know how to put it together as a conventional film, because of the richness of the [characters’] stories and the detail that should be conveyed with each one of them,” Cuarón tells Empire in the Gladiator II issue. Hence, the story – spanning two timelines, in which secrets of the past threaten the future of Cate Blanchett’s journalist Catherine Ravenscroft when they emerge in a freshly-published novel – becoming a seven-part streaming series, written and directed by Cuarón himself.

The series isn’t just a different type of narrative form for the filmmaker – it’s a story about the forming of narratives. “I’m very concerned with how narratives can be manipulated, and how somebody can craft their appearance through narrative to [seem like] a good person,” Cuarón explains. “I think that right now is a very [worrying] period in which that is happening more and more.” Who better to take that on than the powerhouse Cate Blanchett. “It’s insane, the [level of commitment] she took into this,” says the director. “I would receive text messages every weekend and in the evenings after work with specific comments on each part of the script, and specific dialogue that we should study to make everything more meaningful.” How’s this for a disclaimer: once you start watching, you won’t want to stop.

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Cuarón and companies behind Disclaimer studying ways to make the series qualify for Academy consideration....



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It Start On The Page (Limited): Read ‘Disclaimer’ Finale Script “Chapter VII” With Foreword By Alfonso Cuarón

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page (Limited) features 10 standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2025 Emmy contention.

Disclaimer, Alfonso Cuarón‘s adaptation of the 2015 Renée Knight novel for Apple TV+, offers a sleight of hand throughout nearly the entire course of the limited series — all coming to a head in the finale, where it flips its claustrophobic narrative on its head, all while indicting viewers and their possible ill-informed judgments of its leading woman. The psychological thriller, on its surface, traces the public downfall of prominent journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Cate Blanchett), whose worst nightmare comes to fruition when she’s confronted by an pseudonymously written roman à clef that exposes the long-buried secret of her life. Amid a flurry of personal and professional turmoil largely orchestrated by Stephen (Kevin Kline) — an embittered widower who believes Catherine is to blame for the death of his teenage son Jonathan (Louis Partridge) — what appears to be a cut-and-dry tale transforms into a thematic exploration of what happens when women’s voices are hidden and erased.

Cuarón wrote and directed all seven episodes of Disclaimer whose cast also includes Sacha Baron Cohen as Catherine’s husband Robert, Kodi Smit-McPhee as their son Nicholas, and Leila George as younger Catherine.

In the finale, titled simply “Chapter VII,” the truth makes its way to the surface, but not before a taut denouement can unfold, moving with a fury that rivals the waves of the Adriatic Sea, which harbors the real timeline of events Stephen’s presumptuous novel forgoes. After Catherine breaks into Stephen’s home in the concluding moments of the penultimate episode, she relays the details of her encounter with Jonathan, who is not the roguish lover she abandoned and let drown — as his father and mother believed — but rather a predatory man who repeatedly raped and violated her.

Below is the script for “Chapter VII,” which has the apt logline: “It’s time for my voice to be heard.” It is accompanied by an intro by Cuarón, in which he outlines his vision of the sprawling cinematic narrative and its pulse-pounding conclusion for each character and shares how he hopes viewers feel at the end of the episode.

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