EXCLUSIVE: A longtime ardour mission imagined by the late Steve McQueen has been revived.
20 years after the long-lasting actor’s son Chad McQueen and household good friend/Warner Bros exec Lance Sloan started growth on the movie Yucatan, Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Blue Beetle, Miss Bala) has been set because the screenwriter of the mission that’s now in early growth at Netflix, we perceive. Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey stay connected as producers beneath their Crew Downey banner.
Each Netflix and Crew Downey declined to remark.
McQueen’s imaginative and prescient concerned a narrative a few renegade salvage professional’s seek for Mayan treasure within the Yucatan Peninsula with him taking the lead. Particulars concerning the place Dunnet-Alcocer will take the story are beneath wraps. Mexican author Dunnet-Alcocer is working contemporary with McQueen’s script, which was found years after his 1980 dying as a part of a group of notebooks he left behind in a pair of trunks.
Dunnet-Alcocer is the fourth author connected following Paul Scheuring, Anthony Peckham and Terry Rossio, who had been concerned at totally different phases of growth.
Deadline understands it’s too early to announce casting, nevertheless, the freshly minted Oscar-winner might probably star. The connection to Netflix comes by the use of Dan Lin, the streamer’s new movie chief who was beforehand connected as a producer in a 2014 report.
The celebs appear extra aligned this time round. Downey is coming off his first Oscar win for his portrayal of Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. He’s additionally set to make his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal, a drama he’ll star in and produce set to debut this fall.
It’s additionally the correct time for Lin, as effectively, who in February was named Netflix’s movie chief following Scott Stuber’s exit. As a producer, Lin scored main wins with films that trace at how huge Yucatan might be together with most just lately Avatar: The Final Airbender in addition to The Lego Film franchise, It and its sequel, and the 2 Downey-led Sherlock Holmes movies.
Dunnet-Alcocer is a rising star who joins the fold following his work with Warner Bros on Blue Beetle, starring Xolo Maridueña because the DC superhero. He had additionally accomplished work on the screenplay for El Muerto, primarily based on the Marvel superhero of the identical identify, from Sony Footage; Benito “Unhealthy Bunny” Martínez Ocasio had been connected to star in that however exited the mission on account of scheduling points, with the mission pulled from Sony’s launch schedule and in a holding sample.
Of late, Dunnet-Alcocer has been busy at work on the key Prime Video spinoff collection The Boys: Mexico, from govt producers Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal beneath their La Corriente del Golfo banner. The Mexico-set offshoot comes from the primary inventive auspices behind the opposite collection in The Boys franchise together with the mothership’s developer Eric Kripke and his Kripke Enterprises, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Level Gray Footage, Neal H. Moritz’s Authentic Movie, Sony Footage Tv and Amazon MGM Studios.