‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’ Rounds Out Cast With 7 Including Monica Raymund, Lance Reddick and Griffin Dunne

EXCLUSIVE: The court martial of Caine’s mutiny joined the cast with Monica Raymund (high city), Lance Reddick (Bosch), Griffin Dunne (It’s us), Elisabeth Instruction (Batwoman), Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Francois Battiste (Ten days in the valley) and Gabe Kessler (high city). They join previously announced leads Keifer Sutherland, Jake Lacy and Jason Clarke.

Raymund will play Challee, a lieutenant with a sharp legal mind and an eye for detail who serves as a prosecutor during the court-martial and tries his best to claim that Commander Queeg was wrongly relieved of his duties.

Reddick plays Captain Blakely, the chief judge of the court-martial. Blakely maintains an even tone and commanding presence in the courtroom; Dunne plays Dr. Bird, a lieutenant and a member of the psychiatric staff at the Naval Hospital. He is a highly intellectual individual and is more of a New Age psychiatrist than a military looking psychiatrist.

Instruction plays Dr. Lundeen, the US Naval Hospital’s chief of psychiatry, named to testify as an expert witness on Commander Queeg’s mental health and condition; Pullman plays Lieutenant Keeferm, an upper-class intellectual with a touch of snobbery who serves as communications officer aboard the Caine and a writer in civilian life.

Battiste will play Captain Southard, a veteran naval commander who is brought in as an expert to discuss handling Avenger-class ships. Kessler plays Junius Urban, an operations specialist aboard the USS Caine who is called as a witness but provides little useful information. He is described as shy and terribly disheveled with a face full of character.

Directed by director William Friedkin, The court martial of Caine’s mutinyoriginally written by Herman Wouk in 1951, will be retold for modern times and will put the United States Navy on trial for mutiny. To date, no mutiny has ever been recorded within the United States Navy.

As the USS Caine was engulfed by a deadly typhoon off the coast of Iran, Maryk invoked Article 184 of Naval Regulations to relieve his superior, Lieutenant Commander Phillip Francis Queeg (Sutherland), of his duties. Maryk, smug and insisting that his extreme actions were justified, argued that Queeg was mentally unstable and his paranoid delusions endangered the ship and crew.

As a result, Maryk took control and sent The Caine straight into the storm. Fortunately, the ship and her entire crew survived, deeply convincing Maryk that his actions were justified. Through a series of witness interviews and a deep dive into the inner psyche of a career naval commander, Greenwald is able to poke holes in the mutiny charges against his client.

The project hails from Paramount Global Content Distribution for Showtime.