Better have a good car chase sequence involving a Mustang.... Steven Spielberg To Direct Movie Based on ‘Bullitt’ Character – Deadline
This sounds like a very, very bad idea. Why can’t they just leave well enough alone? Sequels, reboots, and remakes are seldom good. Most stink and are quickly forgotten.
Hmmm, Well no one will ever be Steve Mcqueen but I'll check it out I'm usually disappointed you can't replace Greatness!
Spielberg? Ok, a little girl in peril will need to be saved by the female lead replacing Steve McQueen, she will have a catch phrase that she yells when she knocks out one of the thugs with a punch and then shoots the other three. "Make Mama's Day!" Or something similar. She will not be in a panty shot because Spielberg now thinks he's too enlightened to think about women's underwear. Or maybe just too old.
Watched several times in the last 10 years. Leaving aside the car chase, it's a riveting police procedural (the car chase in fact doesn't even move the plot along much but it does raise the stakes of the assassin's seriousness). The only weaknesses are the scenes with Jacqueline Bisset, but even those provide some emotional modulation and balance. Don't know who can replace the irreplaceable McQueen (who knows, at one point in history there was no Steve McQueen, we all have to start somewhere) but this is exactly the kind of film I was hoping Spielberg might make. Actually a sequel to 'Ronin' but this will do. Bullitt is a solid character and certainly more deserving of a sequel than, say, a shark.