When it comes to writing high-stakes legal battles and compelling characters, nobody does it better than John Grisham. The Rainmaker, premiering August 15 on USA Network, provides a reminder that ...

John Grisham‘s 1995 legal thriller — which inspired the 1997 Matt Damon feature about a law-school grad taking on an insurance company — gets a series treatment that’s more “inspired by” than straight ...

Court is now in session. Nearly three decades after John Grisham’s best-selling legal novel The Rainmaker first graced screens in Frances Ford Coppola’s star-studded 1997 film, John Slattery and Milo ...

Drummond was portrayed by Jon Voight in the '97 film adaptation, and when Slattery appeared on TODAY just days before The Rainmaker premieres on USA, the hosts asked him about stepping into Voight's ...

Imagine a 1995 novel about a scrappy young lawyer whose clients are suing a health insurance company that refused to pay for a lifesaving treatment, resulting in their son’s death. Now imagine that ...

Milo Callaghan, who leads the series as Rudy Baylor, said his preparation did first include checking out what Matt Damon did in that role for the film, as well as reading Grisham’s writing. “I watched ...

Additionally, Seitzman adds that “you want to be able to have enough elements from the original material that reflects why you wanted to do [a series] to begin with, which is that you love the ...