The new 10-part psychological horror thriller stars Javier Bardem as Max Cady, the notorious killer previously played by Robert Mitchum and Robert De Niro, while Adams and Wilson play married attorneys Anna and Tom Bowden.
But in this version, there is no Sam Bowden – with creator Nick Antosca instead introducing Anna and Tom as two new characters whose lives, marriage and family are bound up in Cady's conviction.
"I think us flipping the gender on the defence attorney allows for a lot more complication and power dynamic between the two of them," she said.
Antosca said the change was central to making this Cape Fear feel like more than a straightforward retelling.
"That's why we made both the husband and wife be involved in the trial this time. One is the defence attorney, one is the prosecutor. They're married and they have kids because Max Cady was put on trial and because he was convicted, so it's not some incidental forgotten crime from Sam Bowden's past."
He added: "There is no Sam Bowden in this story. We've invented two new Bowdens."
"I think the advantage is being able to go more in depth with each of these characters, and even characters that you don't know," he said. "There's a lot of characters in this that are not in either of these movies...
"They've really expanded these characters and they all have their own journeys and their own tensions. So the feeling is of extreme paranoia, but it's not just told through the Bowden family and Max Cady."
Wilson added that the 10-episode format allows the series to show "Max's backstory" and "lots of different aspects that you're not used to seeing" even in Cape Fear's original source material, the 1957 novel The Executioners.
"I love TV storytelling because it gives you so much room to play with character and to play with suspense, and tension, and dread," he said.
"Seeing that happen in this mysterious but methodical way over time is really scary, and that's what attracted me to the idea of telling a kind of contemporary nightmare version of Cape Fear in a TV format."
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