Jason Bateman (Ozark, Black Rabbit) will be directing Universal's adaptation of John Grisham's 1997 bestselling novel, The Partner. He is also executive producer on the project under his Aggregate Films, with partner Michael Costigan producing. Tom Holland stars in the film as Patrick Lanigan, "a young partner in a white shoe Biloxi law firm who fakes his own death in a burning car," Deadline reported.
Rideback secured rights to the novel "and put Imitation Game Oscar-winning scribe Graham Moore on it and set the project up at Universal," Deadline added. Jonathan Eirich will produce and Nick Reynolds exec produce for Rideback, with Holland producing for Billy 17 alongside Harry Holland and Will South. Grisham and David Gernert are also exec producers on the project.