Steven Spielberg has found his Bullitt.
Bradley Cooper has been cast in the director’s upcoming original film about Frank Bullitt, the character made famous from the 1968 Steven McQueen thriller.Based on the 1963 novel “Mute Witness” by Robert L.
Fish, the original “Bullitt” starred the late McQueen as the title character, a San Francisco Police Department lieutenant seeking to take down Chicago mobster Johnny Ross (Pat Renella).
Spielberg will direct the new Warner Bros.
film, which will not be a remake of the original movie by Peter Yates, instead telling a completely original story starring Bullitt.
Sources close to the project confirmed the news to IndieWire.Cooper will join Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger as producers on the film — the three also serve as producers on Cooper’s upcoming feature “Maestro,” about the life of Leonard Bernstein.
That film, currently in post-production, is set to release on Netflix in 2023.
Oscar-winning
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