Tom Holland to Star in John Grisham’s Legal Thriller "The Partner" for Universal

Tom Holland is suiting up this time to play a lawyer in the upcoming adaptation of John Grisham’s novel “The Partner” for Universal Pictures.

The actor, who rose to fame playing Peter Parker in Sony’s “Spider-Man” trilogy, will also serve as a producer on the film, which is being written by “The Imitation Game” scribe Graham Moore. 

The 1997 novel, published the year after Holland was born, follows a junior partner at a law firm who steals $90 million from a wealthy client, fakes his own death and flees to Brazil. 

It’s unclear when the project will take shape. Holland has a busy film schedule, including Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” “Spider-Man 4” and potentially the next “Avengers” sequels, over the next year and change.

Grisham, a prolific novelist, has seen a number of his best-selling legal thrillers adapted for the big and small screens, including 1993’s “The Firm,” directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman; 1993’s “The Pelican Brief,” led by Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington; 1996’s “A Time To Kill,” helmed by director Joel Schumacher and starring Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey; 2004’s “Christmas With the Kranks,” a holiday film with Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis; and the 2008 Netflix mini-series “The Innocent Man.”

In addition to the “Spider-Man” movies, Holland has starred in films including “Uncharted,” “Chaos Walking,” “The Lost City of Z”, and “The Current War.”