Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas get into Deep Water for Adrian Lyne

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Director Adrian Lyne has dedicated most of his career to making movies about sex getting people into trouble – movies like FATAL ATTRACTION and INDECENT PROPOSAL. Seventeen years after the release of his last movie, UNFAITHFUL, Lyne is set to return to the director's seat for another erotic thriller, this one an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1957 novel DEEP WATER (you can pick up a copy HERE).

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas are in negotiations to star in the film, which will tell the story of 

a small-town couple in a loveless marriage in which the wife is allowed to take lovers as long as she does not desert the family. However, complications arise when the husband takes credit for the unsolved murder of one of the former lovers.

Zach Helm and Sam Levinson wrote the screenplay.

Lyne has been trying to get this project off the ground for several years, but now that he has secured funding from New Regency and has Affleck and rising star de Armas (pictured above in BLADE RUNNER 2049) in talks to lead the cast it's looking like it's actually going to happen soon.

New Regency's Arnon Milchan, Garrett Basch, and Steven Zaillian will be producing DEEP WATER with Guymon Casady and Ben Forkner of Entertainment 360.

Highsmith is best known for writing a series of novels centered on the character Tom Ripley, who made his first appearance in THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY.

I haven't read DEEP WATER, but judging by the descriptions that are available it sounds like it's an interesting, twisted tale of sex and murder. Lyne's specialty.