Deadline reports that John Grisham’s novel, A Time For Mercy, will be turned into a limited miniseries. The newest movie focuses on lawyer Jake Brigance. Matthew McConaughey is said to take the lead role.
Joel Schumacher’s A Time to Kill film is based on Grisham’s 1989 novel. The courtroom crime drama is set in Clanton, Mississippi, and follows a fearless young lawyer as he defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter. The film also stars Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kiefer, and Donald Sutherland.
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This film marks the most recent collaboration between HBO and McConaughey, who have worked together in Eastbound & Down.