‘Bullitt’ Was and Nonetheless Is Unhealthy

Each few years somebody will attempt to inform me that the 1968 film Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen and famend for its chase sequence, is nice. “Have you ever seen the automobile chase?,” they may say, and that’s normally the one factor, as a result of Bullitt, as a film, is trash.

We deliver this up as soon as once more in these elements as a result of there is seemingly a brand new Bullitt being made, or at the least a brand new film based mostly on the character of Frank Bullitt. This wouldn’t be notable besides Steven Spielberg, who might be the best film director of all time, is behind it, and, final week, it was reported that actor Bradley Cooper, will play Frank Bullitt. Through Deadline:

Sources are adamant this isn’t a remake of the unique movie however a brand new concept centered on the character. Within the authentic movie, Frank Bullitt is a no-nonsense San Francisco cop on the hunt for the mob kingpin that killed his witness. Thought-about one among McQueen’s extra iconic roles, the movie delivers probably the most well-known car-chase scenes in cinema historical past. Sources additionally add the movie remains to be in improvement.

Whereas Cooper’s deal solely lately closed, he and Spielberg have been speaking concerning the character and what a brand new tackle the story would appear to be going all the best way again to the pandemic when everybody was caught in quarantine and had nothing however time on their fingers.

This film nonetheless being “in improvement” is the Hollywood commerce press’s method of claiming that it may find yourself not taking place in any respect, which can certainly happen if Spielberg or Cooper sits down and really watches Bullitt, as an alternative of watching the chase scene once more for the one centesimal time, or just considering of their very own nostalgic reminiscence of the film.

Or perhaps they’ve, actually, rewatched it lately, and determined that now’s the time to do a superb — higher model, which I’m assured that Spielberg may do, even with this materials. Spielberg appears to love a superb problem, too, given all of the totally different genres he’s labored in his profession. In the long run, we’ll know Spielberg’s Bullitt is nice if folks speak concerning the precise film, and never only a chase scene.