{"id":1963682,"date":"2025-08-16T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1963682"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T08:23:42","slug":"the-rainmaker-brings-the-john-grisham-thriller-to-tv-whats-your-verdict-on-the-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-rainmaker-brings-the-john-grisham-thriller-to-tv-whats-your-verdict-on-the-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rainmaker Brings the John Grisham Thriller to TV \u2014\u00a0What\u2019s Your Verdict on the Premiere?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Nearly thirty years after it became a big-screen movie starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000354\/\">Matt Damon<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001300\/\">John Grisham<\/a>\u2019s courtroom thriller <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6151526\/\">The Rainmaker<\/a> is getting the TV series treatment, courtesy of USA. But did it acquit itself well?<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s premiere opens with a man played by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1520211\/\">The Walking Dead<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0283945\/\">Dan Fogler<\/a> waking up in the dead of night to discover his house is on fire. He yells for his mother, but he can\u2019t reach her bedroom, so he runs out of the house coughing and wheezing as the whole house goes up in flames. Then we meet Rudy Baylor (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11397515\/\">Milo Callaghan<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly thirty years after it became a big-screen movie starring Matt Damon, John Grisham\u2019s courtroom thriller The Rainmaker is getting the TV series treatment, courtesy of USA. But did it acquit itself well? Friday\u2019s premiere opens with a man played by The Walking Dead\u2019s Dan Fogler waking up in the dead of night to discover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1963683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1963682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Rainmaker-Brings-the-John-Grisham-Thriller-to-TV-\u2014-Whats.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}