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Tom Holland to Star in John Grisham’s Legal Thriller ‘The Partner’ for Universal
Tom Holland is suiting up, this time to play a lawyer, in the upcoming adaptation of John Grisham's novel "The Partner" for Universal Pictures.
The actor, who rose to fame playing Peter Parker in Sony’s “Spider-Man” trilogy, will also serve as a producer on the film, which is being written by “The Imitation Game” scribe Graham Moore. The novel, published in 1997, the year after Holland was born, follows a junior partner at a law firm who steals $90 million from a wealthy client, fakes his own death and flees to Brazil. Grisham, a prolific novelist, has seen a number of his best-selling legal thrillers adapted for the big and small screen, including 1993’s “The Firm,” directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman; 1993’s “The Pelican Brief,” led by Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington; 1996’s “A Time To Kill,” helmed by director Joel Schumacher and starring Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey; 2004’s “Christmas with the Kranks,” a holiday film with Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis; and the 2008 Netflix mini-series “The Innocent Man.”
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