‘The Lincoln Lawyer’: Co-Showrunner Ted Humphrey Addresses Two-Part Season, WGA Strike And How Hollywood Is In “State Of Crisis”
deadline.comIn a departure from the first season of The Lincoln Lawyer, Netflix just dropped five episodes of the drama that’s based on the bestselling novels by Michael Connelly, with plans to stream the remaining five on Aug.
3. Here, co-showrunner and co-creator Ted Humphrey talks about the relative ease at which they were able to split up season 2 — which is based on Connelly’s fourth book in the Lincoln Lawyer series called “The Fifth Witness.” He also talks about the mixed blessing of having his popular series stream during “a state of crisis” in Hollywood. DEADLINE Just to refresh everyone’s memory, the Mickey Haller character from Michael Connelly’s books is of Latin heritage, correct? So Matthew McConaughey’s Mick was wrong in the 2011 movie of the same name? TED HUMPHREY I don’t want to say they got it wrong.
They just went a different direction. The character in the books is half Mexican-American. His father was a famous L.A. criminal defense attorney, kind of a Robert Shapiro-type who represented mobsters and corrupt politicians and big criminal types.
His mother was Mexican, a kind of B-actress who later in life married Mickey’s father. There was a big age difference between the two of them.
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