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yeah that's it. but 03 since the runaway jury. (he's had 2 tv series but no feature)
just makes me wonder why. because he ruled the 90s. did such good stuff, had a great rep/name.
i guess what i am saying is, if you told me in 2002 that he would just drop completely out of the legal thriller scene for almost 20 years, i wouldn't've believed it.
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He's still writing. Just not making movies for some reason.
shareyep. that's exactly what i meant. wonder why.
shareI think it's that he isn't making what the studios want..
I don't believe he actively looks for projects. The studios usually approach him and say "I want to make a movie on this book". If they agree on a price then he signs over the rights and walks away. He doesn't participate in the movie process at all. That's why some of the stories can be so radically changed from what he originally wrote. The closest he came to interfering was when he insisted Julia Roberts play Darby Shaw. He modelled Darby after Julia and when he heard she was interested that was that.
great points. he is probably very content without hollywood interfering.
shareI made another thread on this very subject so you may want to read through it. But the bottom line is that several of the most recent adaptations didn't perform well at the box office, and as we know the film BUSINESS is ultimately a money game.
Go look up the box office results for The Chamber, The Gingerbread Man and The Rainmaker. In the case of The Rainmaker it's a damn shame because that's probably the BEST of all the Grisham films, but the fact of the matter is that the later films just weren't performing like the earlier films did. Overall, quality also declined, with The Rainmaker being the only genuinely good movie of the back-half of releases.
George Clooney is gonna adapt one of his novels, Calico Joe
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