Clive Owen to Play Philip Marlowe

[Hunter Rider]

Hopefully it will get a good director

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=21148

Miller and Owen Causing Trouble
Source: Variety
June 20, 2007


Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment have set Frank Miller to adapt the Raymond Chandler novella Trouble Is My Business as a star vehicle for Clive Owen, reports Variety.

Strike partners Marc Abraham and Eric Newman are producing; Owen and Phil Clymer executive produce.

Sin City was Miller's first collaboration with Owen. Trouble Is My Business was chosen partly because it provides the actor with a similar chance to frame the narrative with a compelling voiceover, using Chandler's hardboiled prose as hard-drinking private eye Philip Marlowe cracks cases, busts heads and romances femme fatales in 1940s Los Angeles.

The deal comes as Miller takes a more active hand in writing and directing films. His graphic novel 300 was turned into a hit movie by Zack Snyder, and his graphic novel Ronin is being adapted as a directing vehicle for Stomp the Yard helmer Sylvain White. Miller is writing to direct a film based on Will Eisner graphic novel The Spirit and is working on a Sin City sequel he'll co-direct once again with Robert Rodriguez.

Strike is in pre-production on The Creature From the Black Lagoon, a Breck Eisner-directed remake that Abraham and Newman are producing with Gary Ross, who wrote the script for Universal.

 

[terry78]

This could be very good or very bad.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I like the title. Miller directing is pretty sweet aswell. He knows his detective novels I believe.

 

[Abaddon]

Exciting. Not sure about the series though.

 

[Elisha Cuthbert]

Frank Miller? All my excitement just went out the window.