The Rainmaker is coming to CBS. Deadline reports the network has ordered a new pilot based on the John Grisham novel.
First published in 1995, the drama “centers on a young lawyer who thinks he’s about to have it all – a six-figure salary and a beautiful fiancée – but suddenly finds all that ripped away, squaring off against the behemoth firm he dreamed of joining, in a case that could get him killed.”
Code Black creator Michael Seitzman and Brett Mahoney are writing the pilot and will executive produce alongside Grisham.
From Seitzman:
I’ve always loved Grisham’s book. One of the things that always struck me about it is that the story has a wonderful character for a TV show – a young lawyer right out of law school, no money, no white shoe law firm scooping him up, forced to work for a crooked lawyer named Bruiser, representing criminals one minute and chasing ambulances the next. Then he stumbles on a big case against an impossible adversary, with high stakes that are both professional and personal. That just feels like a show I want to watch.”
What do you think? Have you read the novel? Would you watch the TV series?
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