Clive Owen to play hard-drinking gumshoe

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Credit: Variety

Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment are teaming up on a new vehicle for actor Clive Owen: Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe.

Variety reports that Strike has made a deal with Phil Clymer at U.K.-based Chorion to get the rights to a Chandler mystery series that includes The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely. Strike’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce the film, with Owen exec producing. Still up in the air is who will write and direct. And the producers haven’t decided what Marlowe title they want to adapt.

What is known is that Owen will be the one to narrate the dramas in Chandler’s testosterone-laced prose, something he did pitch perfect in Sin City. The plan is to keep the noir spirit of the Chandler books, and keep the mysteries set in the 1940s in Los Angeles, with Marlowe continuing to be the hard-drinking, wisecracking gumshoe.

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