New Steve McQueen Heist Film Coming
Source: Variety
June 17, 2005
Warner Bros. Pictures and producer David Heyman have set Paul Scheuring to script Yucatan, a heist film to be based on almost 1,700 pages of recently discovered notes and storyboards done by McQueen for a project he hoped to topline, reports Variety.
Scheuring, creator and executive producer of the upcoming Fox drama series Prison Break, has already begun writing a drama about a group of thieves who head to Mexico to find a treasure buried for centuries beneath the Yucatan peninsula.
The film will be executive produced by McQueen's son Chad and godson Lance Sloane. The duo got the project started when they discovered in McQueen's vault a couple of old trunks that contained 16 custom-made leather-bound books holding meticulous storyboards and notes.
While he prepares his Fox series, Scheuring has already taken several research trips, diving in caves and limestone wells where Mayans dumped treasure in sacrifice to the gods. He said a first draft will be completed shortly, that process accelerated by what McQueen left behind.
Tetris Champion!
Linear Mode
