Clive Owen will be Phillip Marlowe
Clive Owen will play the legendary hard boiled detective Phillip Marlowe after Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment bought the movie rights to the Raymond Chandler noir novels.
These novels include The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye
which have all been adapted to the big screen, with great success. The Big Sleep in particular, starred the icon Humphrey Bogart and is often cited as one of the best movies the film noir genre has ever produced.
It’s not yet known which novel they will be translating to the screen, so we could yet see a remake of one of those mentioned above. The studio is currently on the hunt for a director.
Variety report that the plan is to set the movies in Los Angeles in the 1940’s in an attempt to keep the spirit of the Chandler novels, with the character of Marlowe still being a “hard-drinking, wisecracking gumshoe”
I know I keep hating on Clive Owen but I think I’m in the minority as he seems really popular with you guys and he keeps getting these big roles. When I stop and think about it, he seems perfect for the role of Phillip Marlowe, a detached detective with little charisma getting through each day with alcohol and cigarettes.
Although his embarrassing performance in the film noir Sin City does concern me.
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Totally agree with you on the Clive Owen issue. The film that showed me what a wooden and incompetent actor he is was in “King Arthur”, genuinely couldn’t believe how bad his acting was in that.
Suprises me that he still gets these big roles as in my eyes he’s far from the standard needed.
Comment by Eskimo | January 23, 2007
At last I have found people who can see through Clive Owen. I can understand Hollywood’s obsession with a pretty man who talks with an English accent but can’t the fans see that he doesn’t act at all well? Clive Owen approaches every role in exactly the same way, expresses all his lines in the same monotone and is one of the most over-rated actors today. Not that he cares - he’s making a success out of doing not very much.
Comment by Bat | January 30, 2007
[...] In January we told you that Clive Owen would star as the legendary hard boiled detective Phillip Marlowe in a new series of film noir movies produced by Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment after the two studio’s teamed together to acquire the rights to the Raymond Chandler novels with Owen in mind to lead. [...]
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