Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in 'The Getaway.' Courtesy Everett Collection Netflix is going on a getaway.
The steaming giant has reteamed with Philip Barantini, the director of its acclaimed mini-series Adolescence, to make a new version of the 1972 Steve McQueen classic action movie The Getaway.
Peter Craig, who wrote the Ben Affleck crime movie The Town and whose credits include The Batman and Bad Boys for Life, will write the script. Craig, who is coming off producing Netflix’s hit adaptation Remarkably Bright Creatures, will also produce with partner Bryan Unkeless via the duo’s Night Owl Stories. The company has a first-look deal with Netflix.
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Also producing the feature are Andrew Mittman (Wednesday) for 1.21 along with Barantini and Sam Beddoe via their banner, It’s All Made Up. Mittman was key in unlocking the rights to Getaway and brought it to Barantini and Craig.
Philip Barantini Samantha Bedoe and Bryan Unkeless. Debbie Ellis; Stephen Mimiaga The original movie starred McQueen and Ali McGraw in a twisty two-handed as an ex-con and his wife who rob a Texas bank as a condition for the man’s release. After a deadly double-cross, the couple is forced to go on the run as spurned thieves, violent thugs and the police all give chase across an overheated state.
Walter Hill, who would later go on to direct action classics The Warriors and 48 Hrs., wrote the original script, adapting the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson, and directed by Sam Peckinpah, the macho filmmaker behind The Wild Bunch. The movie was remade in 1994 in a version, starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
Kai Dolbashian of 1.21 will exec produce as will Rey Reyes.
Andrew Mittman and Peter Craig. Karwai Tang/WireImage; John Nacion Barantini began his entertainment career as an actor in series such as Band of Brothers. After transitioning to directing with his feature debut Villain in 2020, he made his breakthrough with the drama Boiling Point, which earned multiple BAFTA nominations and introduced the stylistic format of shooting it in one long take. That format reached its apotheosis with Adolescence, the drama he created with Stephen Graham that has gone on to become not only a viewer sensation but one of the most exalted pieces of television of the last decade.
Barantini, who is repped by CAA, Untitled, Independent and Johnson Shapiro, will next direct Enola Holmes 3 for Netflix.
Craig is repped by CAA and Untitled.
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