A mere two decades after John Grisham’s The Firm became an international bestseller and a hit movie starring Tom Cruise, NBC is negotiating a deal to bring the story to serialized television.
A TV version of the book has been making the rounds for years and was once set up at CBS. The original story follows an ambitious young attorney who’s unwittingly hired by a crime organization’s legal outfit.
Grishman is on board as a non-writing executive producer, with former Law & Order producer Lukas Reiter as showrunner… If it closes, the straight-to-series order will be for 22 episodes. [Inside TV]
I’d like to pooh-pooh this and call it a waste of everyone’s time, but the story line from the book is actually pretty cool. At one point the evil bosses pay a top-shelf hooker to seduce the married protagonist, and then they take pictures of them having sex to blackmail him. And while that’s a total bummer about his marriage, it’s also a pretty AWESOME thing for your bosses to do. “Whoa, you got me a hooker? And I don’t have to pay? AND there are pictures?!?!? Wow, look at these. Are these airbrushed or something? My ass really looks GREAT! Mind if I keep a few copies?”
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FINALLY. It’s about damn time they started making shows about lawyers for TV.
Tom Cruise would very much like to buy the photographic evidence of him making love to a woman.
At one point the evil bosses pay a top-shelf hooker to seduce the married protagonist, and then they take pictures of them having sex to blackmail him.
Note to self: Pretend to be married so enemies buy you prostitutes.
It’s like the old saying, “never look a gift whore in the mouth.”
As long as its not a show about a hardon, I’m in.
It’s like the old saying, “never look a gift whore in the mouth.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
Hmm…enemy financed hookers would explain my recent string of good luck. And the preceding 27.75 years of bad luck.
Might also explain why pictures of my scrotum showed up in the weekly pennysaver on two non-consecutive Sundays. Hmm, food for thought.
They’ve adapted “The Firm”? I’m a huge Kevin Grisham fan.
@ UU it’s never LOOK… I’ve been doing it wrong all these years
WTF!? I’ve been a lawyer for 15 years and NOT ONCE has my boss bought me a hooker!! Clearly I haven’t worked for the right firms….
(Boner Joke)
oh, COME ON essequemodeia! God damn Mexicans stealing all our jokes.