We still have about three months left before we can enjoy ‘The Fabelmans’ in our movie theaters, the film with which Steven Spielberg is making the lucky ones who have already been able to pose their retinas on it fall in love and gaining positions in the race for the Oscar; but this does not prevent the King Midas of Hollywood from already having a new project under his arm that, moreover, has already found a protagonist.
Bullitt returns (but less handsome)
As Deadline exclusively reports, Spielberg will team up with Bradley Cooper for no less than bring Frank Bullitt back to the big screen; the Lieutenant of the San Francisco police on which one of the great classics of the hundred of action and intrigue revolved and whose cast was led by an iconic Steve McQueen under the orders of a Peter Yates in a state of grace.
As it has transpired, the ‘Bullit’ that Spielberg has been maturing since the beginning of the pandemic It won’t be a remake of the 1968 thriller, but a new idea based on the character written by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner. which, after closing the deal with Cooper, will finally materialize. As long as it has the occasional chase half as good as the original, we’ll be satisfied.
In the hands of any other filmmaker this idea might seem far-fetched and invite you to think of it with a raised eyebrow and all the distrust in the world, but after seeing what Steven Spielberg managed to do with his brilliant ‘West Side Story,’ it has my attention. More optimistic. Yes indeed, Bradley Cooper would like to have the bearing of Steve McQueen…