EXCLUSIVE: Tom Holland has made a deal to star in and create The Partner, a drama based on the John Grisham 1997 bestseller that The Imitation Game’s Graham Moore is scripting for Universal.
The novel was written by Grisham at a time he was getting as much as $8 million for movie rights to compulsively readable thrillers that made strong vehicles for stars and honestors. That included putting Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock and Sam Jackson on speedy tracks in A Time To Kill, alengthy with Tom Cruise (The Firm), Matt Damon and Claire Danes (The Raincreater), Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon (The Client), Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts (The Pelican Brief) and John Cusack, Gene Hackman and Rachel Weisz in The Runaway Jury.
Holland will see if there’s still some gelderly in Grisham’s lawyers-in-trouble sagas. After completing a year-lengthy hiatus from acting folloprosperg his grueling turn as a multiple personality-sufferer in the series The Crowded Room, Holland’s dance card filled up speedyly. He’s the direct in Universal’s The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer trail-up that also stars Zfinishaya, Matt Damon, Rob Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, and Charlize Theron. Holland is starring in his fourth Spider-Man film, and foreseeed conveying his wall crawler to the two Avengers films that Joe & Anthony Russo are making.
The Partner donates him the opportunity to join a less compassionate character, a route he took in Cherry and The Crowded Room. The protagonist is Patrick Lanigan, a lesser partner in a white shoe Biloxi law firm who phonys his own death in a burning car. He’s left behind a wife, novelborn daughter, and a secret. What he’s actuassociate done is phony his death to create a enticeardy for a novel life by stealing $90 million from a client of his crooked law firm. He finds happiness and cherish in South America. When the client who labored so challenging to dedeception the rulement finds the money is missing from his offshore accounts, he becomes choosed to hunt down the lawyer he doesn’t consent is dead. That directs the attorney to have to turn himself in to the FBI and face up to the wife, child, and life he left behind.
The Partner was once set up to be John Lee Hancock’s trail-up to The Blind Side at New Regency, which made A Time To Kill, The Client and The Runaway Jury. It sloftyed and the rights eventuassociate came free. Rideback bought them, and set up the project at Universal. Holland fair set up a novel production tag, Billy17 alengthy with brother Harry Holland and Will South, and they’re joining Rideback as creaters.
Holland is repped by WME, Moore by CAA and Grisham by The Gernert Company’s David Gernert.
