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by Matt Goldberg Posted:June 22nd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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Just because studios start adapting John Grisham books into movies again, no one is going to start thinking it’s the 90s. That’s the plan, right? Make people remember the roaring 90s with silly adaptations of Grisham’s substance-free airplane reads? No? Then…why?
I cannot find the answer to that question in the Variety article which reports that 821 Entertainment will adapt Grisham’s 1999 book, “The Testament” which is about a billionaire leaving his fortune to his illigetimate daughter (who does charity work in the Brazilian wetlands and probably makes Jesus feel insecure about his deeds) instead of his greedy relatives. A down-and-out lawyer (who else) helps her battle her relatives over the fortune.
It turns out that the reason we haven’t seen any Grisham movies lately (unlike the 90s when there seemed to be one-per-year) is because he put a moratorium on the adaptations with one of his reasons being his lack of creative input on adaptations of his work; creative input he’ll now have for “The Testament”. It’s a good thing too because it would be a travesty if anyone ever sullied the integrity of a John Grisham novel.
Other Grisham books currently moving through production hell are Warner Bros. adaptation of “The Innocent Man” (Grisham’s only non-fiction book and is actually quite good), Phoenix Pictures on “Playing for Pizza”, and “The Associate” with Shia LaBeouf and Lorenzo di Bonaventura currently attached.
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I’d rather have an adaptation of a good old legal thriller then another “X-Men Origins”, “Year One”, “Land of the Lost”, or any other ‘Who cares’ film of this summer.
I like Grisham books and hell yes bring back the 90′s! Grisham films and Tom Clancy films! It was great. By delving into books for the story they actually walked away with films that had decent and coherent plots, that provided twists along the way and depth unheard of in films of this decade.
Bring on lots more Grisham! I’ll be waiting! ‘Runaway Jury’ was too long ago. Oh, change the ending of ‘The Associate’ though. Entertaining, but not his best work, and the ending was flat
I’d rather have an adaptation of a good old legal thriller then another “X-Men Origins”, “Year One”, “Land of the Lost”, or any other ‘Who cares’ film of this summer.
I like Grisham books and hell yes bring back the 90′s! Grisham films and Tom Clancy films! It was great. By delving into books for the story they actually walked away with films that had decent and coherent plots, that provided twists along the way and depth unheard of in films of this decade.
Bring on lots more Grisham! I’ll be waiting! ‘Runaway Jury’ was too long ago. Oh, change the ending of ‘The Associate’ though. Entertaining, but not his best work, and the ending was flat
You forgot to mention that the Partner is also in production. That brings his total tally of films in production to 5. You may not like it, but I cannot wait. While Grisham movies may not have done the books justice in the past, this is a good 10 years on, and with Grisham having creative influence on it, and with all film studios aware of the murder of Grisham’s classic, ‘The Firm’, when it was adapted for film, I think these films will be brilliant, and I am eagerly awaiting the release of all of them.
Also, Grisham’s books are among the best you will find, so if you are going to bag an author, bag a bad one, and one who clearly isn’t a brilliant writer.
You forgot to mention that the Partner is also in production. That brings his total tally of films in production to 5. You may not like it, but I cannot wait. While Grisham movies may not have done the books justice in the past, this is a good 10 years on, and with Grisham having creative influence on it, and with all film studios aware of the murder of Grisham’s classic, ‘The Firm’, when it was adapted for film, I think these films will be brilliant, and I am eagerly awaiting the release of all of them.
Also, Grisham’s books are among the best you will find, so if you are going to bag an author, bag a bad one, and one who clearly isn’t a brilliant writer.
The Testament would make an excellent motion picture…action, adventure, romance, intrigue, a touch of spiritualism,, and, if filmed in the right location, cinematic majesty.