Patricia Highsmith wrote her suspense/thriller novel Deep Water in 1957 - now, fifty years later, it will be a film from Fox. Highsmith is probably best known for her thriller novel Strangers on a Train which Hitchcock adapted into the most famous of several film versions and the novel The Talented Mr. Ripley.
In Deep Water, set in the small town of Little Wesley, Vic and Melinda Meller's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder-one that soon comes true...
Deep Water will be adapted by Joe Penhall (he adapted Cormac McCarthy's The Road.) Mike Nichols will direct.
