| Title: | The Partner |
| Logline: | Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a white shoe Biloxi law firm, fakes his own death in a burning car. He leaves behind a wife, newborn daughter, and a secret. What he’s actually done is fake his death to create a template for a new life by stealing $90 million from a client of his crooked law firm. He finds happiness and love in South America. When the client who worked so hard to defraud the government finds the money is missing from his offshore accounts, he becomes determined to hunt down the lawyer he doesn’t believe is dead. That leads the attorney to have to turn himself in to the FBI and face up to the wife, child and life he left behind. |
| Writer(s): | Graham Moore |
| Genre(s): | Thriller |
| Agency: | Trevor Astbury, Brian Siberell | CAA |
| Attorney: | Fred Toczek | Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan |
| Studio: | Universal Pictures |
| Companies: | Rideback, Aggregate Films, Billy 17 |
| Additional: | Based on the 1997 novel by John Grisham. Tom Holland, Harry Holland, Will South, Michael Costigan and Jonathan Eirich will produce. Nick Reynolds, John Grisham, David Gerner and Jason Bateman will executive produce. Bateman is also in talks to direct. Holland will possibly star. Ryan Jones and Jacqueline Garell will oversee. Rights to the novel were picked up at the beginning of 2025. |
