Jackson along with Kiefer and Donald Sutherland. The film, which is being credited as the project that launched McConaughey to A-list status, also starred Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. Since A Time to Kill was released in 1988, John Grisham has written one novel a year some thrillers, some sports books, some novels for younger readers. RELATED: Matthew McConaughey’s Redeemer No Longer Moving Forward at FXīased on Grisham’s 1989 novel, Joel Schumacher’s A Time to Kill film is a courtroom crime drama set in Clanton, Mississippi which follows a fearless young lawyer as he defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter. While a lawyer in private practice in Southaven, Mississippi, Grisham served as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 until 1990. The outlet’s sources note that the network is currently meeting with potential writers.

The project will reportedly consist of 8-10 episodes with Lorenzo di Bonaventura set to produce. The True Detective alum is set to reprise the role of Jake Brigance after nearly 25 years since first playing the character in Joel Schumacher’s 1996 film adaptation of A Time to Kill. The network is reportedly developing a Time For Mercy limited series with Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey in the final talks to lead the project. As with the previous case, Jake's decision to represent the boy draws great ire from the locals, but the attorney stays committed to doing whatever it takes to spare the teen from the gas chamber.According to Deadline, HBO has recently acquired the rights to John Grisham’s A Time For Mercy, the recently published sequel to his A Time to Kill novel, which both center around lawyer Jake Brigance. Claiming self-defense, the boy says he only shot his father to protect his mother, his sister, and himself from sustaining further abuse. Word is it was McConaughey who got the ball rolling on the new adaptation after hearing about the new Grisham novel, as the actor was drawn to the idea of revisiting the role that helped launch his career.Ī Time for Mercy is set five years after the events of A Time to Kill, with Jake now assigned to the case of a young man who shot and killed his mother's boyfriend - who just so happened to be a deputy sheriff. More recently, Grisham brought back Jake for the third time for the 2020 novel A Time for Mercy, which serves as the creative inspiration for the HBO Max series. Grisham previously brought back the Jake Brigance character for the followup novel Sycamore Road, which was released in 2013.

The movie earned immense critical acclaim and was a smash hit at the box office, and for his part, McConaughey won Best Breakthrough Performance at the MTV Movie Awards. Dutton, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Brenda Fricker, and Ashley Judd. Along with McConaughey and Jackson, the movie also starred Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Charles S. After the original novel was a hit for Grisham, A Time to Kill was adapted into a movie by director Joel Schumacher and writer Akiva Goldsman.

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