He says he knew that casting the character of Jake would be crucial to the play's success. Rupert Holmes adapted A Time to Kill for the stage. The Broadway production is a racially charged courtroom drama featuring Sebastian Arcelus as Jake, defending a father who takes justice into his own hands when his daughter is brutally attacked.
"There is no way, if we had planned, that it would ever happen. "You know it makes us look real smart," he says. Grisham insists that he didn't plan for his first new Jake Brigance book to come out at the same time as the play. Grisham introduced Jake to readers in his first novel, A Time to Kill - an adaptation of which is opening soon on Broadway. In his new novel, Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to a character close to his heart: Jake Brigance.
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