Ahead of the premiere of NBC's new drama The Firm on January 8, we spoke to executive producers Lukas Reiter and John Grisham about what the viewers can expect from their television adaptation.
The NBC version of The Firm is a sequel to the 1993 movie. Because of this, we began by asking Lukas Reiter if there was ever any talk during the construction of the show that they should try to get Tom Cruise to play the role of Mitch McDeere once again.
Reiter answered "I don't think that was every really raised as a possibility. And I think that - honestly while I love Tom Cruise's work - I'm not sure that that was part of our thinking.
"Because while it is Mitch McDeere, the truth is because the story picks up ten years later, it's a very different character, it's a very different place that we find Mitch McDeere in his life having just gone through 10 years of witness protection.
"And so I really think this isn't about Josh Lucas playing the character that Tom Cruise played as Mitch McDeere. I think because it's a different place in that character's life, it really feels like it needs a different characterization.
"Josh really has come in to inhabit this character. From the minute he started I just felt like he owned it. He picked up where Mitch would be now in his life so naturally and organically and all of the intelligence, all of the resourcefulness, all of the heart that we've come to expect from Mitch McDeere is there just in a new version of the guy."
As was mentioned, this NBC mythology picks up 10 years on from the end of the Tom Cruise movie. So we then asked Reiter where the characters are in their lives when the show starts. He said "for those who know the back story the premiere episode will immediately fill in what little information viewers would be interested to know.
Read the full interview at SimplyTV
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