Variety is reporting that Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment have signed Frank Miller to adapt Raymond Chandler's novella, Trouble Is My Business.  Owen will portray Chandler's iconic, wisecracking private eye Philip Marlowe and provide the sardonic hardboiled first person narration that gives Chandler's novels and stories so much of their character.  Although Chandler's novels such as The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The Little Sister, The Lady in the Lake, and The Long Goodbye have all been made into feature films (some several times), Trouble Is My Business has never been adapted for the big screen.

Clive Owen, who worked with Miller on Sin City, told Variety: 'Frank Miller knows more about noir than anyone I have ever met, and clearly the writing of Raymond Chandler has been an enormous influence on his life and his work. Miller adapting Chandler seemed like a perfect match.'

Variety gave no indication of when Trouble Is My Business would go into production.  Miller is currently involved in directing an adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit and still plans to co-direct a Sin City sequel with Robert Rodriguez.