A Mad Man is heading to court. USA Network will once again be airing original scripted dramas! The Rainmaker was ordered to series in June 2024. It comes from Michael Seitzman, Jason Richman, John Grisham , David Gernert, and Jason Blum.
The first major role has been cast. Read on for everything we know about that character and more. Yes! The book by John Grisham was originally published in 1995.
According to its description, it “tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America — and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first ‘clients,’ Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments.
While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone’s ever seen — and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy’s flat broke, has no job, hasn’t even passed the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys — and powerful industries — in America.” It then became.