Film To Be Made Into John Grisham

OXFORD, MS—According to entertainment industry insiders, Columbia Pictures’ 1995 courtroom thriller, The Witness, will soon be made into noted fiction writer John Grisham. The story of a blind boy who hears a racially charged murder take place in a Washington, DC coffee shop, The Witness will become a six-foot-one, 190-pound, best-selling lawyer-turned-author with a penchant for writing gripping page-turners set in the legal world. “We believe this recent box-office smash will make a great Oxford, Mississippi-based author,” said David Rudner, Columbia Pictures’ spokesperson. “The gripping dialogue and nail-biting trial scenes should have people who meet Grisham on the edge of their seats.” The Witness: The Human Being is due out in July of ’97.