Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg is taking on Bullitt.

Spielberg is making a new original feature that’s based on the character of Frank Bullitt – the San Francisco cop famously played by Steve McQueen in the original 1968 film.

According to Deadline, the picture will star Bradley Cooper as the no-nonsense cop, but the film isn’t a straightforward remake. Instead, it’s said to be a new original feature that’s centered around Frank Bullitt.

Although Cooper has only just signed on for the role, he’s apparently been discussing it with Spielberg for some time.

“He and Spielberg have been talking about the character and what a new take on the story would look like going all the way back to the pandemic,” said Deadline reporter, Justin Kroll.

The original Bullitt saw the titular character trying to track down a mysterious mob boss who organized a hit on his star witness. It also features one of the most famous car chases in cinema history.

Unfortunately, there are no other details about the upcoming Bullitt film, with the plot remaining firmly under wraps.

Whether or not the new film will live up to the original remains to be seen, but with Spielberg at the helm, it feels as though Bullitt is in good hands.

The 10 Best Steven Spielberg Movies of All Time

These are Steven Spielberg's 10 best movies.

Munich is arguably the most mature and unsentimental movie Spielberg has ever made. Hewing far closer to political potboilers like The Conformist than the director's own portrayals of historical events, Spielberg crafts a daringly ambiguous and dramatically credible rendition of events that took place following the murder of eight athletes in Munich during the 1972 Olympic games. His mastery as a showman and purveyor of spectacle is the stuff of Hollywood legend, which is why the sophistication and intelligence of Munich is all the more impressive. Where even his previous forays into starkly dramatic material occasionally veered into shameless sentiment, here Spielberg approaches his subject with deadly-serious gravitas, never taking some position of moral justification to elevate the Israeli agents above their victims, nor reducing them to bloodthirsty murderers out for vengeance.

9. Lincoln: Foregoing the conventional “greatest hits” biopic route in favor of focusing on the final few months of Lincoln’s life, Spielberg’s film tells the story of the president's quest to pass the 13th Amendment that will abolish slavery as the bloody Civil War draws to a close. This is President Lincoln at his most world-weary and yet most powerful, as he must use every political favor, ruse, and tactic he and his team can muster to get the amendment passed. The film is an engaging, albeit stagebound drama that finds the heart and humor in Abraham Lincoln as he led the Union during its bleakest days, and it succeeds most as a showcase for all the amazing acting talent involved, particularly the incomparable Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role. It’s one of Steven Spielberg’s finest films.

8. Catch Me If You Can: Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this serio-comic film based on the autobiography of Frank Abagnale, Jr., one of the world's greatest con men and among the youngest individuals ever placed on the FBI's Most Wanted List. The film features a familiar "Spielbergian" theme of a kid from a broken home, only Frank reacts to his parent's divorce by running off and becoming an impostor airline pilot, forging checks, and spending years avoiding capture. Things never really get dark or foreboding, as they could in different hands, but instead Spielberg keeps the pace up and the tone light. After Spielberg spent so much time with serious films like A.I. and Amistad, Catch Me If You Can came as a welcome change of pace.

7. Jurassic Park: You know why this movie still works, 25 years after it unleashed the power of CG everything on audiences? Because when Alan Grant first looks up to see that veggiesaurus get on its hind legs to eat some tree leaves, we still, even now, mouth "wow" every time. It's that sense of awe and wonder that only a Spielberg movie can provide. We still get geek goosebumps when Hammond says, "Welcome to Jurassic Park." And while the story about dino experts forced to survive a hellish Disneyland-esque ride is merely a clothesline by which Spielberg can hang big set-pieces on, it does deliver plenty of emotion and character work to elevate the film above simple popcorn entertainment. In fact, it makes it one of the genre's best examples of popcorn fare, a sci-fi tale that reminds man for the millionth time that he should never play God.

6. Saving Private Ryan: Saving Private Ryan was a vastly different type of World War II film when compared to Spielberg's Schindler's List. Depicting the invasion of Normandy Beach and several bloody conflicts that followed, Private Ryan drew in viewers with the tragic quest of Tom Hanks and his squad to track down the last surviving brother in a family of soldiers. In between the explosions and ground skirmishes, Ryan explores the toll of war. The film works best when the mission detours into the messiness of human conflict, like when Spielberg turns a set piece inside a bomb-ravaged village into a tense game of cat and mouse that practically plays out in real time, with our boys' best sniper (the underrated Barry Pepper) blessing his rifle before pulling the trigger on his Nazi counterpart. We still scratch our heads as to why this movie lost the Best Picture Oscar to Shakespeare in Love.

The Post writer Josh Singer is writing the screenplay while Cooper, Spielberg, and Kristie Macosko Krieger are on board as producers. Steve McQueen’s son Chad McQueen and granddaughter Molly McQueen will serve as executive producers.

IGN’s review of Spielberg’s most recent film The Fabelmans gave it 9/10 and said: “Steven Spielberg goes autobiographical with The Fabelmans, his warmest and most personal film to date. With a coming-of-age story that is universal in its portrayal of misunderstood artists and broken homes, but hyper-specific in its portrayal of the childhood that formed a legendary filmmaker, this is a therapy session turned into a hugely entertaining movie, aided by a fantastic cast, and one of John Williams' best scores in years.”

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(source: IGN)