Frank Miller to Direct Trouble Is My Business
A while back we reported that Clive Owen had been tapped to play hard-boiled private dick Philip Marlowe in an upcoming film, and that he had supposedly been chosen because of his performance (and narration style) in Frank Miller’s Sin City. Well now it looks like the plan for this project has become all too clear, as Universal has gone on to recruit none other than Frank Miller himself to direct it! With Miller looking to get into the directorial game, he seems like an ideal choice for this flick, which will be based on the novella Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler (no relation to Chandler Bing). It looks like this may actually be Miller’s first solo effort as a director; his other previously announced project, an adaptation of Will Eisner’s comic The Spirit, is currently still in the screenwriting stage. I am completely stoked to see Miller and Owen reteam for a noir detective story, I only hope the maintain the setting of the original story which is 1940’s Los Angeles.
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Wow this sounds great!
Posted by Mike on June 20th, 2007very very cool
Posted by daburf on June 20th, 2007Sign me up for this. I love noir films, and I too hope they keep it in the ’40s setting. I’m still wondering about Frank Miller as a solo director, but Owen and Miller on a noir again is good enough for me.
Posted by Eaglewing on June 20th, 2007For those wondering about Frank Miller’s abilities as a solo director, how about his abilities as a director in any capacity? Yeah, he was credited as a co-director on Sin City, but I for one don’t believe that he really exhibited any directorial skills on that project. I have no doubt in my mind that that was just an honorary title bestowed upon him by Rodriguez because he wanted Frank to let him make a movie about his comic. Sure he was there on set every day and helped make some decisions and acted as a consultant on the material, but anything more than that? I dunno. This is not to say that his first outing as a solo director won’t be great because, well, stranger things have happened, I suppose. However, I don’t think I can personally trust him to make a particularly good film on his own until we see what he’s got. At this point I’ll say that Raymond Chandler and Clive Owen have me interested and perhaps a bit excited, but Frank Miller’s attachment to this project doesn’t help the cause any in my eyes, and may well turn out to in fact harm it.
Posted by Rian on June 21st, 2007Leave a Reply