The setting and subject matter certainly seem fitting for a network that has lately gotten massive success out of series like Sharp Objects and, of course, True Detective, which launched with McConaughey in a leading role in the thick of his awards campaign for Dallas Buyers Club that would eventually net him an Oscar. Naturally, this isn’t an open and shut case, as HBO believes there’s enough material here for 8-10 hours of engaging television. In A Time For Mercy, Brigance takes on the case of a 16-year-old boy on trial for the murder of a local deputy. Jackson to tell the story of a hotshot young lawyer defending a Black man accused of murdering two white men. The risk paid off though, with McConaughey lining up next to major league stars like Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. McConaughey was a risky proposition to take the starring role, only having a few roles to his name at the time and most of them in films that either weren’t well-received or he had very small parts in. The series is apparently set to run from 8 to 10 episodes.Ī Time to Kill was a big hit critically and commercially, earning $152 million at the box-office in the midst of audience’s obsession with courtroom dramas in the 1990s. One of his breakthrough roles was in Joel Schumacher’s adaptation of the John Grisham novel A Time to Kill in 1996, and it’s a role that McConaughey is now set to return to 25 years later.Īccording to Deadline, HBO has acquired the rights to Grisham’s follow-up novel A Time For Mercy, and are developing it as a limited series with McConaughey in final negotiations to reprise his role as defense attorney Jake Brigance. If you think Matthew McConaughey didn’t start churning out quality work until the 2010s, you are sorely mistaken.
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