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Dennis Lehane To Adapt ‘Travis McGee’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 21, 2013 @ 2:20pm PDTTags: Dennis Lehane, Leonardo DiCaprio, Travis McGee

Dennis Lehane will adapt Travis McGee for Fox and Appian Way, based on 1964′s The Deep Blue Good-By and 20 subsequent novels by John D. MacDonald. Chernin Entertainment and Leonardo DiCaprio are producing, with the latter eyeing to star. The project previously had Paul Greengrass and Oliver Stone circling to direct.

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Ben Affleck And Warner Bros Set Next Film: Dennis Lehane Crime Novel ‘Live By Night’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday May 7, 2013 @ 9:09am PDTTags: Ben Affleck, Big Deals Film, Dennis Lehane, Live By Night, Warner Bros

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros Pictures chief Jeff Robinov didn’t waste any time moving to make Ben Affleck‘s next picture after Argo snagged the Best Picture Oscar for the studio in February. I’ve learned that pre-production starts … Read More »

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Tom Hardy In Talks For ‘Animal Rescue’ As Fox Searchlight Eyes Noomi Rapace

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday December 17, 2012 @ 10:49am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Dennis Lehane, Fox Searchlight, Michael R. Roskam, Noomi Rapace, Tom Hardy
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EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight is in final talks with Tom Hardy to star in Animal Rescue, and is offering the female lead to Noomi Rapace. Searchlight … Read More »

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‘Argo’s Ben Affleck Eyes Dennis Lehane Novel ‘Live By Night’ As Next Directing Vehicle

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 11, 2012 @ 3:05pm PDTTags: Argo, Ben Affleck, Big Deals Film, Dennis Lehane, Warner Bros
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EXCLUSIVE: As Warner Bros prepares for tomorrow’s release of the Ben Affleck-directed Oscar -entry Argo, Affleck is in talks at the studio to make Live By Night the next film he will write-direct-produce and star in. The project is based on the new novel by Dennis Lehane that was just published by William Morrow. Affleck made his directorial debut with the superb Gone Baby Gone in 2007, based on the mystery novel series written by Lehane.

Warner Bros acquired Live By Night in April when it was in galley form, to be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran’s Appian Way. Appian Way, which had a pre-existing relationship with Affleck that came together during its production of Runner, Runner, will now produce with Pearl Street, the WB-based company that Affleck shares with Matt Damon.

Live By Night uses some of the characters from Lehane’s sprawling period novel The Given Day and brings them into Prohibition. The focus is Joe Coughlin, the black-sheep son of a police captain who gets involved in escalating levels of organized crime. The deal with Lehane and his agent Amy Schiffman at IPG made back then brought Warner Bros rights to The Given Day. That sprawling classic of a novel had originally been optioned by Sam Raimi, but didn’t go anywhere. Lehane will complete the series as a trilogy but Affleck’s focus will be Live By Night and he certainly has shown a flair for bringing Lehane’s fiction to the screen. Read More »

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