Corona | Coming Attractions

In a piece examining what movie projects former News Corporation and 20th Century Fox COO Peter Chernin, Variety brings to light three new projects including one that's got Leonardo DiCaprio attached to it.

The DiCaprio thing is called The Deep Blue Goodbye and could turn out to be a new franchise for the actor. It's the first novel in John D. MacDonald's popular Travis McGee books, of which 21 have been published. Goodbye first came out in 1964.

For a series of crime books the character of McGee is unusual in that he's not a former law enforcement officer or private gumshoe. Instead, he's a self-professed "salvage consultant" who makes his money taking odd jobs for clients that need goods recovered. Every one of MacDonald's McGee books have had a color in its title. The screenplay for the Goodbye film was penned by Dana Stevens (City of Angels, For Love of the Game).

The second project is an adaptation of comic book writer Greg Rucka's Queen & Country, about a female British secret agent/assassin. The final Chernin project is Man and Wife, about a hitman who disguises his identity playing a normal suburban husband. Alan McElroy (Spawn) did the script for it.