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Warner Bros has acquired screen rights to the William Landay suspense novel Defending Jacob for Mary Parent to produce through her Disruption banner. The novel involves a district attorney in Boston whose son is accused of killing a classmate. As he tries to clear his boy, the DA discovers many things about his son that he didn’t know, including the possibility the 14-year old might actually have done it. Alice Martell of The Martell Agency and Jody Hotchkiss of Hotchkiss and Associated brokered the deal.
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Mary Parent rocks!
Sounds a lot like the Meryl Streep & Liam Neeson’s 1996 flick BEFORE AND AFTER
I couldn’t agree more. I think that the teens name was Jacob in movie Before and After, no?
Yes – I watched Before and After just the other day on tv and there are a LOT of similarities. In my opinion too many to make Defending Jacob an original story worthy of filmrights.