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Oh hell yeah! Lucas as got charisma and ability in spades. This is perfect casting.

Josh Lucas To Star In NBC's 'The Firm'

Meet television's Mitchell McDeere. Josh Lucas is in final negotiations to play the lead in NBC's midseason drama The Firm, based on the hit Paramount feature starring Tom Cruise as McDeere and on John Grisham's best-selling novel. The series picks up the story 10 years after the events of the film and novel. As a young associate, McDeere brought down the prestigious Memphis law firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke, which operated as a front for the Chicago mob -- and his life was never the same. After a difficult decade, which included a stay in the Federal Witness Protection program, Mitch and his family now emerge from isolation to reclaim their lives and their future -- only to find that past dangers are still lurking and new threats are everywhere. The Firm is produced by Entertainment One in association with Sony Pictures TV Networks and Paramount Pictures, with Grisham, Lukas Reiter, John Morayniss, Michael Rosenberg and Noreen Halpern executive producing. This will mark the first regular TV series role for WME-repped Lucas. He was most recently seen in the feature adaptation of another best-selling novel about an attorney, The Lincoln Lawyer, and next co-stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar.