{"id":1080,"date":"2009-09-29T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/09\/di-caprio-as-travis-mcgee.html"},"modified":"2009-09-29T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T22:47:00","slug":"di-caprio-as-travis-mcgee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/09\/di-caprio-as-travis-mcgee.html","title":{"rendered":"Di Caprio as Travis McGee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>WELL, this is probably a good-news-and-bad-news situation.<\/p>\n

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Mike Fleming has just reported in Variety that the star of “titanic” and “the departed” has been attached to “the deep blue goodbye,” the first of what could become a franchise of films based on john d. macdonald’s travis mcgee series. HERE’s<\/a> my previous LAT piece on the project.<\/div>\n
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here’s fleming:<\/div>\n
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“Chernin joins Appian Way’s DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson-Killoran as producers on a project that has a strong draft by Dana Stevens (“For Love of the Game”) that is drawing interest from directors. Amy Robinson is also involved in a producing capacity.
“DiCaprio is in line to play Travis McGee, a self-described beach bum who lives aboard the 52-foot houseboat The Busted Flush, and alleviates his
cash flow problems by hiring on as a “salvage consultant.” He recovers property for clients, taking a hefty percentage and getting into a lot of danger and romance in sun-drenched Florida. “The Deep Blue Goodbye,” the first of a 21 volume bestselling series, was originally published in 1964.”
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the goods news is, this brings us a little closer — after decades of waiting — to a real mcgee film. it also suggests the studio will spend money on it. decaprio is a real actor who’s deepened in his recent work.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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but doesn’t he seem at least a little bit wrong? too young? too pretty? too sensitive? too internal for the raw-boned floridian?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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readers let me hear from you!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Photo credit: Public domain<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WELL, this is probably a good-news-and-bad-news situation. Mike Fleming has just reported in Variety that the star of “titanic” and “the departed” has been attached to “the deep blue goodbye,” the first of what could become a franchise of films based on john d. macdonald’s travis mcgee series. HERE’s my previous LAT piece on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,457,325],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"category-john-d-macdonald","8":"category-leo-dicaprio","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}