"The Partner" headed for the big screen
Oct 01, 2008
Screenwriter Ann Peacock (The Chronicles of Narnia, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, Nights in Rodanthe) has been hired to write the movie adaptation of John Grisham’s 1997 novel “The Partner”.
The project, from Oscar-winning producer Bob Chartoff (Rocky) and newcomer Velocity Management, centers on a disillusioned lawyer who steals $90 million from his law firm, stages his own death and successfully disappears for several years. What at first seems to be a brilliant white-collar crime is further complicated by a murder charge.
Chartoff and Lynn Hendee will produce for Chartoff Prods., while Grant Turck and Mark Bethea will produce for Velocity. Pernille Trojgaard of Buttercookie Prods. put together the initial financing and will executive produce.
Other Grisham novels to be turned into feature films include “The Firm”, “The Client”, “A Time To Kill”, “The Rainmaker” and “Runaway Jury”.
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i sure hope leonardodi caprio plays d lead..
“The Partner” as a film – this will be a great movie! I hope that the movie making crew is good enough.
I think Christian Bale is an actor capable of doing this leading role, because he is a chamaleon… You can see The Machinist to prove this.
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I have read the book and I am looking forward to watching this movie. I hope that everything they that is portrayed on the book could be really identical on the film.
This would make an incredibly good movie if done true to the book. However, I would imagine that a studio would have a hard time greenlighting a movie with the poetically just ending of The Partner.
This is my all time favorite Grisham. I cannot wait. I think someone like Leo or Robert Downey Jr would be fanastic, with Eva played by Maria Bello, or Penelope Cruz.
I first read “The Rainmaker” in 1996, my first JG novel and quickly discovered why his novels had been dubbed “literary crack.” I read a variety of literature, non-fiction primarily, and look forward to reading a cerebral page-turner once or more a year. John Grisham’s novels have always provided me that opportunity. After having read fourteen to date, “The Partner” is by far and away my favorite (spurring in addition an avid interest in Brazil). I’ve always wondered why a screenplay and film did not follow. The story and lead role will probably propel at least one or two actors’ respective careers. My hope is that creative people can work as a cohesive group to successfully bring this story to the screen.
did this movie come out yet? if yes please can anyone please tell me when it did and under what title! thank you!
IMDb says that the movie should come out sometime this year. No more details though.
Great book, couldnt put it down, Eva Menendez MUST play Eva….
Just finished “The Partner” which was my favorite Grisham book yet. Do the movie but please stay true to the book. Action scenes must be dramatic to hold broad audience attention.
Was the partner ever releaded as a movie?