Steve McQueen's Dream Movie

[tcfjr]

Here's an excerpt from a NY Times article (no reg required, amazingly) about a motorcycle movie developed by the late Steve McQueen that may be on it's way to actual filming:

WHEN Steve McQueen died 25 years ago in Juarez, Mexico, he left behind two children, some 30 movies and a legacy as "The King of Cool" (the title of a documentary about him). He also left behind two custom-made trunks containing 16 leather-bound notebooks full of drawings, photographs from period magazines, and a detailed script continuity — a screenplay without dialogue — written in a kind of hyper-stylized poetry. These materials were his plans for "Yucatan", the vanity project he yearned, but failed, to make.
A heist film and adventure epic, it would have married the sprawling canvas of films like "The Great Escape" and "Papillon" with the chase-scene histrionics of "Bullitt" (transferred to motorcycles, McQueen's lifelong passion) along with some ancient history and visionary science thrown in for good measure.

 

[Mike-H]

Too bad it wasn't made....love'd LeMans, Bullit, On Any Sunday....I grew up believeing he was the KING OG COOL :coolsmiley02:

 

[ladybug]

I think maybe he still is the King of Cool. I loved the scene in "The Great Escape" when he jumped that fence!! When I was a kid I was in love with Steve McQueen and Marlon Brando.