‘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 sweet. “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 carry this up as soon as once more in these components as a result of there is outwardly a brand new Bullitt being made, or at the very least a brand new film primarily based 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. By way of Deadline:

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

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 arms.

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

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