EXCLUSIVE: With The Lincoln Lawyer coming to an end, Netflix is on the lookout for a potential successor in the legal drama space. One of the hopefuls is And Justice For All, a series based on the 1979 movie starring Al Pacino, Deadline has learned. The project, now in the works at the streamer, comes from Sony Pictures Television whose sibling Columbia Pictures distributed the film.
Written by Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn (That Was Then), And Justice For All is described as a gritty look at an idealistic attorney’s flawed life as he struggles to fight a corrupted legal system until he finally snaps.
Miller and Cohn executive produce with The Lincoln Lawyer EP Ross Fineman of Fineman Entertainment who years ago was the 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 also part of the cast.
The film was a boxoffice success, grossing $33.3 million in North America on a $4 million budget, and landed two Oscar nominations, for Lead Actor (Pacino) and Original Screenplay (Curtin and Levinson).
And Justice For All also produced one of the most memorable lines in movie history when Pacino’s Arthur Kirkland shouted in court: “You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order! The whole system is out of order!”
‘…And Justice For All’, Al Pacino, 1979
Miller and Cohn created the ABC dramedy That Was Then and have also worked on Entourage, Ally McBeal and Boston Public.
Fineman Entertainment’s development slate also includes David E. Kelley’s Michael Connelly adaptation Welcome To Catalina, which is in the works at HBO Max, and Holding Court, a legal dramedy in works at ABC written/executive produced by Alfredo Barrios Jr.
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