Leonardo DiCaprio Waves 'The Deep Blue Goodbye'
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It's been nearly two months since Leonardo DiCaprio optioned a new project, and he must have thought we would start calling him lazy. In August, Monika reported that he had 25 projects in various stages of pre-production, and now you can add a 26th, as Variety says he's attached to star in The Deep Blue Goodbye, an adaptation of John D. MacDonald's 1964 thriller.Goodbye is the first of MacDonald's Travis McGee series, which spanned the course of 21 novels. McGee is like a beach bum version of James Bond, a bachelor who happily resides on a houseboat named the Busted Flush. (To add to his cool, he won it in a poker game.) He works as a freelance "salvage consultant," which means he tries to retrieve money or property that a client has been wrongfully deprived of. His life is one of money, adventure, dames, and weird villains all set against sunny Florida, some of whom he'll "bend way, way, over, but not break." Sexy stuff!
To be fair, DiCaprio has reportedly been attached to produce and play McGee for some time, but the movie reporting world learned about it thanks to Fox's new executive Peter Chernin, who is coming aboard Goodbye as producer alongside DiCaprio and his Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran. Dana Stevens is penning the script, and the film does not yet have a start date. With DiCaprio's ever growing slate, this post could be long forgotten by the time Goodbye sails in front of the camera.
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9-29-2009 @ 11:03AM
Brock said...
I would be glad to see the Travis McGee series on screen, but Leonardo DiCaprio as Travis McGee? Travis is 6'4" built more like Tom Selleck. DiCaprio still looks like a kid.
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9-29-2009 @ 11:15AM
Tim O'Sullivan said...
Agree on the miscasting, but Hollywood magic has made such shrimps as Stallone and Cruise look normal sized. It's worth it to get the travis McGee series on film, which is long overdue.
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9-30-2009 @ 7:51PM
E-Rock said...
Whatever happened to "The Low Dweller"? Is that still happening?
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10-05-2009 @ 4:43PM
Jess said...
I LOVE LEO :D
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