German helmer Robert Schwentke has signed on to direct 20th Century Fox's long-gestating feature
The Deep Blue Goodbye, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The film is based on the first in the series of Travis McGee detective novels written by author John MacDonald.
It follows Cathy Kerr, who is innocence turned helpless desperation--all because of the smiling freckle-faced stranger named Junior Allen. Cathy has nowhere to turn--except to another stranger, that man named Travis McGee--who is a walking pillar of cold rage as he follows the depraved wreckage of Junior Allen's trail.