Posted on 11/17/2022 4:16:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
Bradley Cooper is set to star in Steven Spielberg’s next film, an original feature based on the character of Frank Bullitt, the no-nonsense San Francisco cop played by Steve McQueen in the 1968 action-thriller “Bullitt.”
Josh Singer (“The Post,” “Spotlight”) is writing the screenplay for the film, which is currently in development at Warner Bros. Though plot details haven’t been revealed, the forthcoming production is expected to follow Bullitt on an entirely different exploit than the McQueen original’s.
Warner Bros. released the original “Bullitt,” which was directed by Peter Yates and based on the 1963 novel “Mute Witness.” In what became McQueen’s most notable role, he portrayed a detective who investigates the death of a mob informant he was hired to protect. The movie is famous for including one of the most iconic and exciting car chases in cinema history with McQueen doing his own stunts in a modified Ford Mustang. “Bullitt” became a critical and commercial smash, generating $42 million on a $4 million budget and winning one Oscar.
Cooper will produce the still-untitled movie with Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, marking their second collaboration following the upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro.” McQueen’s son Chad McQueen and granddaughter Molly McQueen will executive produce.
Spielberg’s latest movie “The Fabelmans,” a semi-autobiographical story about growing up as a film lover, opened in theaters earlier in November. Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen and Gabriel LaBelle (as Spielberg’s screen surrogate) star in the movie, which looks to be a major awards player after taking home the people’s choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Cooper is currently in post-production on the highly anticipated film “Maestro,” which he stars in, co-writes, directs and produces. Netflix is releasing the musical drama in 2023. Spielberg, who had been developing “Maestro” for years, encouraged Cooper to direct and star in the film after watching Cooper’s directorial debut “A Star Is Born.”
Deadline Hollywood first reported the news of Cooper’s casting.
He’s not even that!
Don’t mess with the classics man…………
The article says that it is not a remake, but an original movie with the same character.
I find I OD on coolness with Steve McQueen movies. Too much.
No chance, Bradley Cooper isn’t even 1/1,024 of the cool of Steve McQueen. A hard pass on this one.
I’m certain the car-chase scene downtown will be so overdone and over-the-top to suit this generation’s “Marvel franchise” audiences, it will be laughable.
Film firearms trivia. In a scene where the bad guy is killing folks with a Winchester 1897 shotgun, the receiver is US miitary marked.
(Mrs. Slim hates me stopping movies to check out the guns involved.)
Bradley Cooper the new STEVE MCQUEEN????? Nahhhh.
McQueen is easier to recast than Jacqueline Bisset! The thought of her got me through a lot of cold nights in Korea.
Rumors are he’s gay.
Jacqueline Bisset...and THAT wet t-shirt in “The Deep”
I wonder if they’ll have that magic green VW Beetle in the chase that Bullitt’s Mustang kept passing.
What, no LBGQRSTUV+ person in Steve McQueen’s role? Or a kale powered steel tread WWII tank?
It’ll be a Prius this time, LOL
It’ll be mostly CGI.
Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. Though I think I’ve only seen Pitt drive a tank.
I knew Steve McQueen, and Bradley Cooper is no Steve McQueen. 🤡
There is cool, and then there is Steve McQueen cool. Steve McQueen cool is its own universe, its own dimension.
We often watch The Thomas Crown Affair to get a healthy dose of McQueen.
Still a dumb idea...people who will remember the film will hate it and people who never saw the film will say, Frank who. Why not just make an original cop film? Spielberg remakes West Side Story, that nobody but he wanted remade, then he does a pseudo bio of himself, and now this...
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