It was announced last year that Steven Spielberg was developing a new movie based on Bullitt, the classic action thriller movie starring Steve McQueen, and the remake has received a promising update.
Kristie Macosko Krieger, one of Steven Spielberg’s producing partners, spoke to GamesRadar+ about the upcoming Bullitt remake. “I’m producing it. Steven [Spielberg] and Josh Singer, who is writing the script, they are working on the story,” Krieger said. “I hope we have a script soon as the writers’ strike put us behind a bit. But they are working on it – I couldn’t tell you if it’s the next movie we are making as I don’t know at this point. I think that it will be a wildly entertaining film.“
Beyond the iconic car chase sequence, Bullitt is one of those classic movies I’ve never gotten around to watch; perhaps I should get on that in the new year.
Based on Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish, the original film starred Steve McQueen as a no-nonsense San Francisco cop who becomes determined to track down the underworld kingpin who killed the witness in his protection. Steven Spielberg will direct the new Bullitt movie as well as produce it, with Josh Singer writing the script. Bradley Cooper is set to star in the project as Frank Bullitt. However, this new project won’t necessarily be a remake of the 1968 film, but will instead tell an original story with the Frank Bullitt character at its center. Steve McQueen’s children, Chad and Molly McQueen, will executive produce the Bullitt project, as will Bradley Cooper.
Bradley Cooper and Steven Spielberg have been wanting to work together for years. There were several opportunities which fell through. Spielberg was once slated to direct Cooper in American Sniper, which ended up being helmed by Clint Eastwood. He also once considered taking the helm of Maestro, the upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic starring Cooper and was actually the one who suggested that Cooper direct the film himself.
Maestro received a limited theatrical release last month and is set to make its streaming debut on Netflix on December 20th. You can check out a review from our own Chris Bumbray right here.