Ok, this is definitely something very interesting, and we know you’re going to like it, so check this out! According to the latest reports, an adaptation of John D. MacDonald‘s novel titled The Deep Blue Good-By is coming, and as you already guess – it could easily be a new franchise!
On the other hand, there are already some rumors that Leonardo DiCaprio is going to star as a leading man, Travis McGee! Sounds good or what?
The Deep Blue Good-by is the first of 21 novels in the Travis McGee series by American author John D. MacDonald. Commissioned in 1964 by Fawcett Publications editor Knox Burger, the book establishes for the series an investigative protagonist in a residential Florida base – as well as a cyclical form: All McGee novel titles have a color in them.
The novel features McGee as a “salvage consultant” who reluctantly leaves his Florida houseboat to go in search of a treasure hidden by a soldier after World War II. FOX studio is, apparently, hoping that ‘The Deep Blue Good-by’ could be the first in a franchise.
DiCaprio is also set to produce, along with Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Amy Robinson, while Dana Stevens and Kario Salem are responsible for the script.
So it would be logical if DiCaprio decides to take a lead, although we do know he’s quite busy these days with that J. Edgar biopic and The Great Gatsby project.
This project is still without a director, but at one moment Oliver Stone was attached to direct it (he’s now occupied with an adaptation of the Don Winslow novel ‘Savages’). Now, according to Deadline, Paul Greengrass is the front-runer to direct The Deep Blue Good-by, since he’s decided to push back for at least a year his Martin Luther King Jr assassination film Memphis.
