One of America’s most beloved novelists is John Grisham. Since 1989, his books have sold over 250 million copies globally. He has written 17 legal fiction works with a new legal fiction due out in November 2009, 4 non-legal fiction books and one non-fiction story. There have been 10 movies made from his writings so far with an extra expected in 2012.
The first film from 1 of his books was “The Firm” in 1993. Tom Cruise plays a Harvard law school graduate who starts working for a Memphis law firm with associations to the underworld. Also starring Jeanne Tripplehorn and Gene Hackman. Again in 1993, the second motion picture from a Grisham novel came out. “The Pelican Brief” starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
In 1994, “The Client” was released. In this movie a adolescent boy fortuitously witnesses a suicide and he is consequently chased by the mafia for what they think the dying man may have told him. “The Client” starred Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones and the late Brad Renfro.
The very 1st published and the one that many judge to be Grisham’s greatest book to date is “A Time to Kill”. This book was made into a motion picture in 1996. The film introduced a new and forthcoming performer in the lead role, Matthew McConaughey, also starring Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. Another motion picture from 1996 was “The Chamber” starring Chris O’Donnell, Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway.
In 1997, “The Rainmaker” starring Matt Damon as a rookie lawyer who takes on the litigation of a boy turned down for medical treatment by a powerful insurance corporation. In 1998, the only film from Grisham that was based upon an unpublished manuscript was released, “The Gingerbread Man” starring Kenneth Branagh and Robert Downey, Jr.
Of the four non-legal fiction works by Grisham, two have been turned into movies, “A Painted House” in 2003 and the holiday favorite, “Christmas with the Kranks” starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis and adapted from the storyline “Skipping Christmas”.
“The Runaway Jury” starring Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz was released in 2003. The next motion picture is intended for release in the year 2012. It is “The Associate”, which was released as a novel in January 2009.
John Grisham has been one of the most admired and fruitful authors in recent history, with 22 writings and an additional being released in November 2009, 10 movies and an additional in 2012. If you’ve forgotten any of these famous films you can now download them right away to your computer and watch right away on your computer, iPhone or TV.
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