Steve McQueen, "The King of Cool"

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Well folks, there is something in the film news besides, well you know (DVC), and here it is. The New York Times has an article about a project of the late great Steve McQueen that never came to fruition in his life time but is being brought about by his son and a close friend of same.
Here are the first two paragraphs of the article. Link afterwards.

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.

Article written by Paul Cullum.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/movies/14cull.html?_r=1&8mu&emc=mu&oref=slogin

 

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I really liked Steve McQueen. I think it was last year when I rented The Great Escape when my 13 yr old GD was visiting. She loved the movie and when she went home told her Dad that he just had to rent the movie and watch it.