Tom Holland to Star In and Produce Film THE PARTNER Based on John Grisham Novel
Spider-Man actor Tom Holland has signed on to star in and produce the big screen adaptation of The Partner, based on author John Grisham’s 1997 bestselling novel of the same name. The Imitation Game’s Graham Moore is adapting the script for Universal.
The novel was written during a time that Grisham was getting as much as $8 million for movie rights to compulsively readable thrillers that made strong vehicles for stars and directors.
His hit adaptations include A Time To Kill starring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. Jackson, along with Tom Cruise’s The Firm, Matt Damon and Claire Danes’s The Rainmaker, Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon’s The Client, Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts’ The Pelican Brief, and John Cusack, Gene Hackman and Rachel Weisz’ The Runaway Jury.
The Partner follows “Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a white shoe Biloxi law firm who fakes his own death in a burning car. He’s left behind a wife, newborn daughter, and a secret.
“What he’s actually done is fake his death to create a template for a new life by stealing $90 million from a client of his crooked law firm.
“He finds happiness and love in South America. When the client who worked so hard to defraud the government finds the money is missing from his offshore accounts, he becomes determined to hunt down the lawyer he doesn’t believe is dead.
That leads the attorney to have to turn himself in to the FBI and face up to the wife, child and life he left behind.”
Holland will next be seen in Universal’s The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer follow-up that also stars Zendaya, Matt Damon, Rob Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o and Charlize Theron.
Holland is starring in his fourth Spider-Man film, and will likely bring his wall crawler to the two Avengers films that Joe & Anthony Russo are making.
via: Deadline