It’s a good time to be Tom Holland. An engagement to Zendaya, a role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Spider-Man 4 on the way, and now he’s landed a part in a new John Grisham adaptation. Deadline reports Holland will star in The Partner, based on Grisham’s 1997 legal thriller.
In The Partner, Holland plays a junior law partner who uncovers a crooked scheme between his firm and a corrupt client to steal millions from the government. Instead, he devises a scheme of his own and steals the money from them. Faking his own death, he starts a new life with a new love, only for the client to discover he’s alive and hire assassins to hunt him down.
The film will be adapted by Graham Moore, best known for writing The Imitation Game.
It used to be that you couldn’t throw a rock without hitting a Grisham adaptation, but there hasn’t been a major feature since 2004’s Christmas with the Kranks, hardly the best example of his work. Those would be bonafide gems such as The Pelican Brief, A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Client, and The Rainmaker.
A director still needs to be found, so The Partner is clearly still in the earliest stages.
