The cast for James Mangold’s Travis McGee book adaptation The Deep Blue Good-By is coming together, with stars Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike already in place. Now Peter Dinklage and Transformers: Age Of Extinction’s Nicola Peltz are in talks to join them.
Bale is playing charismatic rogue McGee, a Floridian sleuth and “salvage consultant” who is always getting into deeper water than he intends with dangerous women and very bad men.
**The Deep Blue Good-By **represents the first of the McGee books, and with 21 tomes in John D. MacDonald’s book series so far, Fox will be hoping this one has legs so it can make more. After a somewhat torturous development process, Mangold is set in the director’s chair, working from a script that has seen input from Dennis Lehane and Scott Frank.
As for what Pike, Peltz and Dinklage will be playing? Their roles have yet to be revealed, though following his driven, antagonistic turn in** X-Men: Days Of Future Past**, we’re sort of hoping he’ll be causing trouble for Bale.
Dinklage will be back on our screens as Tyrion in Game Of Thrones next month, and crops up in Adam Sandler’s Pixels, which lands on August 12. Peltz has also worked on Affluenza and is set to shoot the drama Low Riders.