While many of the Clanton residents demand a swift trial and the death penalty, Brigance digs deeper to discover there's more to the story than meets the eye. Dont miss any of John Grishams gripping Jake Brigance novels: A TIME TO KILL - SYCAMORE ROW - A TIME FOR MERCY Review Quotes Grishams pleasure in relating. The film also starred Oliver Platt, Donald Sutherland and Kiefer Sutherland.Ī Time for Mercy is set five years after Brigance's monumental court case, during which he is reluctantly assigned to the case of a young man who shot and killed his mother's boyfriend, who is a deputy sheriff. A Time to Kill takes place in Clanton, Mississippi and revolves around Carl Lee Hailey, Black, father of four children, three males and one 10-year-old female child named Tonya Hailey. The Ku Klux Klan incite violence as 'retribution' in the small fictional town of Clanton. A Time to Kill is the first novel by acclaimed author John Grisham published in 1989 and instantly became a masterpiece in legal thriller genre. The legal thriller - set in 1980s Mississippi, where racial tensions are simmering - follows Brigance and his assistant (played by Bullock) defending a Black man called Carl Lee Hailey (Jackson) on trial, who is accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter.

A TV adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling novel A Time For Mercy, which is a sequel to his classic thriller A Time to Kill, is currently in development at US network HBO, which has acquired the rights to the book.Ī Time to Kill was adapted into the 1996 movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock and Samuel L Jackson, and Deadline reports that McConaughey is in talks to reprise his role as defence attorney Jake Brigance. Matthew McConaughey to Reprise ‘A Time to Kill’ Role in John Grisham Series in the Works at HBO By Joe Otterson Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Matthew McConaughey is attached to.

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