John Slattery to Star in 'The Rainmaker' Series for USA Network!
justjared.comUSA Network is rebooting John Grisham’s The Rainmaker! The 61-year-old Mad Men alum will be leading the to-be-announced cast of the drama from Lionsgate Television and Blumhouse Television, THR reports.
He will play Leo F. Drummond, described one of John Grisham‘s most iconic characters, and “a legendary lion of the courtroom and senior partner at Tinley Britt, the powerful firm that Rainmaker protagonist Rudy Baylor is up against,” the report adds. Keep reading to find out more… Here’s the official description: “Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond (Slattery) as well as his law school girlfriend.
Rudy, along with his boss and her disheveled paralegal, uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client’s son.” The straight-to-series order for the Rainmaker reboot is USA Network’s first non-shared scripted series since 2020.
The Rainmaker was made into a 1997 film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on the 1995 novel of the same name. Jon Voight played Leo F.
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