Editor’s notice: The beneath comprises spoilers for The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 finale.
Creator Michael Connelly just lately delivered a blockbuster announcement within the type of a brand new Harry Bosch novel coming this November. The Hole will characteristic a crossover that features The Lincoln Lawyer‘s Mickey Haller, on condition that each characters exist in a shared universe. In different phrases, Connelly simply handed Prime Video and Netflix the last word franchise crossover between Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer. Sadly, authorized rights and possession points make the potential for Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller sharing the display screen just a little extra difficult.
What is the Connection Between ‘Bosch’ and ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’?
In Connelly’s books, Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller are associated as organic half-brotherssharing the identical father, J. Michael “Mickey” Haller Sr. Bosch was the product of an affair between Haller Sr. and Bosch’s mom, Marjorie Phillips Lowe. Haller Jr. finally learns his familial connection to Detective Bosch within the 2008 ebook, The Brass Verdictthe second ebook to characteristic Haller following The Lincoln Lawyer in 2005.
The Brass Verdict options Bosch and Haller teaming as much as clear up a Hollywood lawyer’s homicide, the place Haller finally learns that Bosch is his older half-brother. In the meantime, Bosch already is aware of about Mickey’s existence and their shared relationship with Haller Sr. Sadly, they have been unable to have a relationship prior to now, as Bosch was positioned within the foster care system after his mom was murdered. Bosch and Haller, each primarily based in Los Angeles, have been crossing over in Connelly’s books for years.
A Crossover Between ‘Bosch’ and ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Is Extra Sophisticated Than You Assume
Each Prime Video’s Bosch and Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer have already tailored storylines the place their respective protagonists cross over within the supply materials. Nevertheless, since Amazon owns the rights to Boschand Netflix controls the streaming rights for Lincoln Lawyer, the exhibits have labored round this authorized hurdle by changing Bosch and Mickey with different characters. Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer tailored the plot of The Brass Verdicthowever included Detective Griggs (Do not Dwell With Me) as a alternative for Harry Bosch. In the meantime, Bosch: Legacy Season 2 tailored Connelly’s ebook, The Crossingwhich additionally options Mickey Haller, however used Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers) as Haller’s stand-in.
Not too long ago, The Lincoln Lawyer did affirm that Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) certainly has a long-lost sibling in the present’s Season 4 finalehowever it’s not Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver); as a substitute, “The Legislation of Innocence” reveals Allison (Cobie Smulders) as Mickey’s long-lost sister. The Lincoln Lawyer Season 5, which can adapt the ebook Resurrection Strollseems to be utilizing Smulders’s Allison as the present’s newest Bosch stand-inon condition that Resurrection Stroll is one other Mickey Haller novel the place Bosch seems.
What’s Stopping a Crossover Between ‘Bosch’ and ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’?
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Sadly, Netflix’s and Amazon’s respective possession of Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer make a possible onscreen adaptation of The Hole extremely unbelievable. Bosch and its spin-offs are co-produced and owned by Amazon MGM Studios, they usually stream on Amazon’s Prime Video. In the meantime, The Lincoln Lawyer is co-produced by A+E Studios and David E. Kelleyand the sequence streams on Netflix, so Netflix owns and controls the streaming rights for the hit authorized sequence.
Nevertheless, in an October 2024 interview with TV Insider, The Lincoln Lawyer co-showrunner Ted Humphrey did not utterly rule out the potential for a future crossover, however he did level out that it will take Netflix and Amazon determining a means for it to occur: “Except they work out a way for Netflix and Amazon to affix forces… I suppose you’d by no means say by no means, however in the mean time it will appear not possible, sure.”
Contemplating the streaming rivals’ involvement in the tv variations of Connelly’s literary charactersthe chance of those two streaming giants placing a deal to permit a serious crossover occasion seems near nil, however the concept will not be essentially unprecedented. Disney-owned Marvel Studios and Sony Photos did attain a deal over the Sony-owned Spider-Man film franchisewhich allowed Tom Holland‘s Spidey to look within the MCU beginning with Captain America: Civil Struggle. Regardless of Connelly’s new ebook announcement protecting the concept contemporary and ever-present in followers’ minds, the concept of an MCU-style crossover between Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer nonetheless stays a enjoyable situation for viewers to contemplate.