John Grisham has made a deal to bring his 1999 bestselling novel "The Testament" to the big screen. Producers Mark Johnson and Hunt Lowry have teamed with 821 Entertainment Group to option the book. In the novel, a billionaire defies his greedy relatives and leaves his $11 billion fortune to a mysterious illegitimate daughter doing charity work in the Brazilian wetlands. A down-and-out lawyer helps her battle her relatives over the fortune. Johnson has been trying to bring the book to the screen since it was first published. Grisham hasn’t been interested, but things changed when Johnson joined forces with Grisham’s old friend Lowry, who previously produced the big-screen version of the author’s “A Time to Kill” in 1996. According to The Moving Picture, the deal will also give Grisham the right to provide creative input, something he hasn’t always had in the past and one of the factors that has pushed him away from Hollywood in recent years. The last Grisham thriller to hit the screen was 2003’s “Runaway Jury.”
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