Back in 1993, pre-crazy Tom Cruise played protagonist Mitchell McDeere in the screen adaptation of John Grisham's paperback thriller The Firm, about a young lawyer who begins working for a corrupt Memphis law firm and eventually brings the company down. Now the tale is moving to the small screen- NBC, specifically- with Josh Lucas attached to star as McDeere.
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The plot picks up 10 years after the 1993 film left off, says Deadline: After a difficult decade, which included a stay in the Federal Witness
Protection program, Mitch and his family now emerge from isolation to
reclaim their lives and their future -- only to find that past dangers
are still lurking and new threats are everywhere.
Josh Lucas was last seen in another film about an attorney, The Lincoln Laywer (starring Matthew McConaughey), which we reviewed here. He will next be seen in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, a biopic of closeted FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Lucas will play aviator and anti-Semite Charles Lindburgh opposite Armie Hammer, Leonardo DiCaprio and Naomi Watts.
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