Matthew McConaughey is taking on the role that helped to propel his career! The 51-year-old actor is set to star in HBO’s limited series A Time for Mercy, the sequel to the classic John Grisham novel A Time To Kill, Deadline reported on Thursday (March 18).
25 years ago, Matthew starred in A Time To Kill in the role of defense attorney, Jake Brigance. According to the report, the series would be 8-10 episodes with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who was a Warner Bros.
executive when A Time to Kill was greenlit in the 1990s, to produce. Here’s more on the story: “The original novel was set in Clanton, Mississippi and followed a fearless young lawyer as he defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter.
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