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EXCLUSIVE: With The Lincoln Lawyer coming to an end, Netflix is connected nan lookout for a imaginable successor successful nan ineligible play space. One of nan hopefuls is And Justice For All, a bid based connected nan 1979 movie starring Al Pacino, Deadline has learned. The project, now successful nan useful astatine nan streamer, comes from Sony Pictures Television whose related Columbia Pictures distributed nan film.
Written by Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn (That Was Then), And Justice For All is described arsenic a gritty look astatine an idealistic attorney’s flawed life arsenic he struggles to conflict a corrupted ineligible strategy until he yet snaps.
Miller and Cohn executive nutrient pinch The Lincoln Lawyer EP Ross Fineman of Fineman Entertainment who years agone was nan duo’s agent.
Reps for Netflix and Sony TV declined comment.
The 1979 movie, written by Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson and directed by Norman Jewison, starred Pacino, Jack Warden and John Forsythe, with Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Craig T. Nelson, Thomas Waites and Sam Levene besides portion of nan cast.
The movie was a boxoffice success, grossing $33.3 cardinal successful North America connected a $4 cardinal budget, and landed 2 Oscar nominations, for Lead Actor (Pacino) and Original Screenplay (Curtin and Levinson).
And Justice For All besides produced 1 of nan astir memorable lines successful movie history erstwhile Pacino’s Arthur Kirkland shouted successful court: “You’re retired of order! You’re retired of order! The full proceedings is retired of order! The full strategy is retired of order!”
Miller and Cohn created nan ABC dramedy That Was Then and person besides worked on Entourage, Ally McBeal and Boston Public.
Fineman Entertainment’s improvement slate besides includes David E. Kelley’s Michael Connelly adjustment Welcome To Catalina, which is successful nan useful astatine HBO Max, and Holding Court, a legal dramedy successful useful astatine ABC written/executive produced by Alfredo Barrios Jr.
