Juliette Lewis and Callum Keith Rennie join NBC's THE FIRM

Juliette Lewis and Callum Keith Rennie have joined NBC's mid-season legal drama, The Firm. THR reports that the show is adapted from John Grisham's best-selling novel and is set to air after NFL games on Sunday. The network is confident about the series and has ordered 22 episodes produced by eOne Television in association with Sony Pictures Television's Networks Group and Paramount Pictures. If you are having dejavu, do not worry. This show is based on the same book used for Paramount's 1993 film starring Tom Cruise.

Lewis (Natural Born Killer, Cape Fear) and Rennie (The Killing, Californication) join the cast that already includes Josh Lucas as attorney Mitchell McDeere last month. Lukas Reiter wrote the first episode that "picks up a decade after the movie left off, with McDeere having just emerged from the Federal Witness Protection Program after bringing down a Memphis law firm operated by the mafia." Reiter was involved in the project when it was at CBS three years earlier, and has since rewritten the script. The show will be executive produced by Grisham and Reiter with eOne’s John Morayniss, Noreen Halpern and Michael Rosenberg.

The pilot episode will be directed by David Straiton (House, Fringe) and is set to shoot in Toronto in August. Helen Shaver (Judging Amy, Law & Order: SVU) has also joined the drama as producer and will direct several episodes. 

This sounds like a cool show. The Firm was one of my favorite Grisham-based films. I think tha Lucas is a great person to star as McDeere. Lewis and Rennie are great additions to the solid cast. What are your thoughts on this show?