BULLITT - REMAKE

[Needa68]

All,

Just found this posted July 5th. There isn't alot of details here, so I think this is just speculative at this point. It wouldn't surprise me if this happened, however. I'm still trying to decide how I feel about this.

STORY:

Actor Brad "Fight Club" Pitt will star as 'Detective Frank Bullitt', for Plan B and Warner Bros., in a re-make of the 1968 action film "Bullitt".

The original film starred actors Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset, with Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Carl Reindel, Felice Orlandi, Vic Tayback, Pat Renella, Paul Genge, Bill Hickman, Norman Fell and Brandy Carroll, distributed by Warner Bros.

The director was Peter Yates. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the novel "Mute Witness" (1963) by Robert L. Fish (aka Robert L. Pike).

Lalo Schifrin wrote the film's original music score.

"Bullitt" won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller) and was nominated for Best Sound. Writers Trustman and Kleiner won a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

Bullitt is most-remembered for its central car chase scene through the streets of downtown San Francisco, one of the earliest and most influential car chase sequences in movies.

The scene had Bullitt in a dark "Highland Green" 1968 Ford Mustang G.T.390 Fastback, chasing two killers in a "Tuxedo Black" 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Magnum.


SOURCE: http://sneakpeektv.blogspot.com/2007/07/bullitt-gets-anbother-shot.html


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[Brock Samson]

  well i'm figguring it will be a modern version, cause to place it in '68 again.. would just be plain 'ol stupid... 
i guess there's just no new ideas eminating from hollywood these days... 

[Charger1973]

well i'm figguring it will be a modern version, cause to place it in '68 again.. would just be plain 'ol stupid... 
i guess there's just no new ideas eminating from hollywood these days... 

True but the car chase and Steve McQueen are the reasons the movie is still popular.  Obviously they cant use him so they have to rely on the car chase to get people to want to see it...  Hopefully they dont decide to smash up a bunch of 68's for this one. 

[Chad L. Magee]

Well, if they do decide to remake it with a 1968 Charger and Mustang Fastback, they can at least use the new repop bodies on the Mustang to bash.  Hopefully, they will do it with modern cars to tear up rather than real orginals.  I admit I do like to see the classics up on the screen, but in an overwelming amount of times they get destroyed for some reason or another.  The sad fact is that hollywood movie budgets can afford to buy up many of the original cars if they wanted to.......

[Charger-Bodie]

there isnt much thats cooler than the part right after the bad guy clicks his seat belt and lets that 440 eat  i hope its in a modern setting but still uses the same cars!

[Mike DC]

 
How about they could use a modern green Mustang, and a black 2009 Challenger rather than the current Charger?  I could stomach that a lot easier than the modern "Charger."


Or just let them use old cars again. 
Heck, practically the entire outer skin of the Charger is scheduled for reproductions within a year or two.  And the Mustang is already sold new as a whole unibody.
We've already lost plenty of these cars to BAD movies lately; it's high time they ripped up the screen in a decent flick.
 
 

[JR]

I'd be glad to see it use new Mustangs and Chargers.

Then maybe we could cheer when the Charger plows into the gas station. Hehe.

After the vanishing point remake, and F & F, I don't think I can stomach watching another black 2nd gen Charger destroyed.

[Fitz73Chrgr]

I'm willing to bet they will use original cars, since the latest trend in Hollywood is to destroy 2nd gen Chargers.  And hell, why not destroy a bunch of Mustangs too?  They did it in Gone in 60 Seconds.

[bull]

How about they could use a modern green Mustang, and a black 2009 Challenger rather than the current Charger?  I could stomach that a lot easier than the modern "Charger."

Yup. And 40 years from now they'll be crying about how the 2008 BULLITT remake was the instigator of all the '08 Challenger crashes on film since.

[TruckDriver]

I'm willing to bet they will use original cars, since the latest trend in Hollywood is to destroy 2nd gen Chargers.  And hell, why not destroy a bunch of Mustangs too?  They did it in Gone in 60 Seconds.

[Chatt69chgr]

Remaking some movies makes sense.  Could be that the original movie had a good idea and just wasn't produced or directed well.  Or perhaps the original was adapted from a book and didn't follow the storyline-----Hollywood numbskulls are famous for messing up storys.  I never pay any attention to critics of movies.  I like what I like.  And I liked Bullitt the first time I saw it-----immensely.  I know that Steve McQueen didn't do most of the driving in the movie but that doesn't matter.  The movie was made pretty much the way he wanted it to be made.  It is a good distillation of his character.  The chase scene in the movie is really good.  No silly car jumping crap.  You watch it and think that it could have really happened just like that.  The bad guys really look like bad guys.  Anybody that has spent time in a hospital knows that the hospital scenes you see in the movie are very realistic.  The engine and car sounds that you hear during the chase scene are real.  I have heard both a Mustang and a Charger and they really sound like those did in the movie.  This movie was a really good movie and doesn't need to be remade.  Doing so would simply a ripoff to try to make a quick buck just like the Dukes of Hazzard garbage that was done recently. 

I suppose a sequel could be made that would have some merit but the world has changed.  The bad guys are not the mob now.  It's the frigging middle eastern terrorists.  I am literally sick to death hearing about those scumbags and I don't want to go see a movie with Frank Bullitt's grandson chasing a pair of them---------vintage mustang/charger or new ones.

[bull]

Was anything in 'Bullitt' worth repeating besides the chase scene? Other than that 10-12 minute chunk I didn't know what was going on.

[Mean 318]

  lol, I zould put it on and then end up doing something else till the chase scene! I hope they dont do it@