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Travis McGee lives on a 52-foot houseboat dubbed The Busted Flush. The boat is named after the circumstances in which he won the boat in what McGee describes as a "poker siege" of 30 hours of intensive effort in Palm Beach—the run of luck started with a bluff of four hearts (2-3-7-10) and a club (2), which created a "busted flush," as described in Chapter 3 of The Deep Blue Good-by.
This film was a pilot for a TV series; it made some key changes from the books, including shifting the locale to California and changing the houseboat The Busted Flush into a sailing boat. "We turned our back on a key element in McGee's life because we wanted to have the mobility of a sailboat," said Elliot. [4]
The film starred Rod Taylor as Travis McGee, the protagonist of a series of successful novels by MacDonald. Darker than Amber and The Empty Copper Sea (adapted as the 1983 film Travis McGee starring Sam Elliott) remain the only McGee novels adapted to the big screen to date. Critical reception was positive, but the film was not a financial success.
The Empty Copper Sea (1978) is the 17th novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. In it, McGee looks into the apparent drowning of Hub Lawless in a boating accident. His $2 million insurance policy leads some to believe he has faked his death.
The 1983 TV movie Travis McGee: The Empty Copper Sea starred Sam Elliott. It relocated McGee to California, abandoning the Florida locales central to the novel. In 1967, author MacDonald refused permission for a television series about Travis McGee, believing that people would stop reading the novels were Travis McGee regularly on television.
Christmas in the Spotlight cast: Jessica Lord and Laith Wallschleger star in this new Lifetime movie, alongside Jeannie Mai and TikTok creator Haley Kalil (who is making her Hollywood debut).
Tying the episodic renovation storylines together, the show also acts as a documentary of the McGees; viewers get an intimate look into the McGees' personal life as they run Studio McGee, raise their three young daughters, and often make renovations on their own dream home.
Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly is a 2019 documentary directed by White Trash Tyler, produced by Travis Scott, Kylie Jenner, David Stromberg and Angus Wall and starring Scott. The documentary explores Travis's rise to fame in 2014 to where he created and released his third studio album Astroworld .