Court is now in session.

Nearly three decades after John Grisham ’s best-selling legal novel The Rainmaker first graced screens in Frances Ford Coppola ’s star-studded 1997 film, John Slattery and Milo Callaghan are breathing new life into the story with their USA Network courtroom drama. And that means taking a whole lot of creative liberties to stretch the story it across the 10-episode first season.

“The departures were pretty significant,” Slattery told E! News in an exclusive joint interview with Callaghan, “and having read the book and seen the movie, you look at the scripts and the source material is only relevant to a certain degree. Then you just shoot scene by scene and hope they stack up to something interesting.”

Those departures went far beyond those like Lana

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