(Left) Presenter, Jason Bateman arrives for the reside ABC Telecast of The 87th Oscars® on the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 22, 2015. Credit score/Supplier: Jordan Murph / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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Preview:
- Jason Bateman is making a deal to direct ‘The Companion.’
- Tom Holland is aboard to star within the film and produce.
- It’ll adapt the John Grisham authorized thriller novel.
If it pleases the court docket, we’d direct the jury (er, readers) to solid their thoughts again to January of this 12 months, when proof emerged that Tom Holland had agreed to star in and produce a brand new film adaptation of John Grisham tome ‘The Companion’ for Common.
The case for making the movie has moved on to the purpose of hiring a director, and Deadline brings phrase that Jason Bateman is the person taking the job, which might mark his third film directing gig (not forgetting his quite a few TV credit).
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What’s the story of ‘The Companion’?
Tom Holland arrives on the pink carpet of The ninetieth Oscars® on the Dolby® Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, March 4, 2018. Credit score/Supplier: Paul Hebert / A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: A.M.P.A.S.
The plot follows Patrick Lanigan, a younger accomplice in a white shoe Biloxi legislation agency who fakes his personal loss of life in a burning automotive. He’s left behind a spouse, new child daughter, and a secret. What he’s truly performed is pretend his loss of life to create a template for a brand new life by stealing $90 million from a shopper of his crooked legislation agency.
He finds happiness and love in South America. When the shopper who labored so laborious to defraud the federal government finds the cash is lacking from his offshore accounts, he turns into decided to search out the lawyer he doesn’t consider is useless.
That leads the lawyer to have to show himself in to the FBI and withstand the spouse, baby and life he left behind…
The function of Lanigan presents Holland the prospect to play one other conflicted, morally questionable character, and revel in among the complexity he discovered within the likes of ‘The Crowded Room’ and ‘Cherry.’
Graham Moore, whose credit embody movies reminiscent of 2014’s ‘The Imitation Sport,’ and 2022 crime thriller ‘The Outfit’ (which he additionally directed), has been at work on the script.
What else is Jason Bateman engaged on?
Jason Bateman attends Netflix’s ‘Black Rabbit’ NY Premiere and After Get together at SVA Theater on September 16, 2025 in New York Metropolis. Picture by Jason Mendez/Getty Photographs for Netflix.
Bateman is presently on screens in new Netflix collection ‘Black Rabbit’ and was most lately seen in one other Netflix manufacturing, airport thriller ‘Carry-On’.
Arising, he’ll be reprising the function of wisecracking fox Nick Wilde in Disney’s animated ‘Zootopia 2’ (due in theaters on November 26) and is a star and producer on HBO collection ‘DTF St. Louis’.
Jason Bateman as Vince in ‘Black Rabbit’. Picture: Courtesy of Netflix © 2025.