 
McG hopes to resurrect a lost Steve McQueen project as part of a new three-year first-look deal at Warner Bros. When Steve McQueen died 26 years ago, he left behind two custom-made trunks containing 16 leather-bound notebooks full of drawings, period photographs, a detailed script continuity containing over 1,700 pages of hand-typed/written material by McQueen. This was the remains of his lost vanity project titled Yucatan, a blueprint for a movie written entirely without dialogue, in a “hyper-stylized poetry.”
According to the New York Times, the story followed “an archaeologist from the Museum of London who enlists a renegade Navy diver, who works for the oil companies and races motorcycles on the shores of the Mojave, in a plan to explore the cenotes, caves in the Yucatan jungle that reveal underground lakes. Here, a millennium before, Mayan priests sacrificed virgins covered in gold and precious jewels, a fortune rumored to still adorn their skeletons at the bottom of these sacred wells.”
Yucatan is just one of three projects that Charlie’s Angeles director McG is currently developing. And in my opinion, it’s by far the most interesting. McG is one of only a couple directors I would like to see tackle the epic motorcycle chases in Yucatan. But the question is, who can replace Steve McQueen?
August 1st, 2007 at 9:53 pm
McG is a director you WANT to see do something?….
August 1st, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Yeah… apparently I’m the only one who enjoyed Charlie’s Angels (the first one, not the sequel). I thought it was a fun movie. I also have been known sit back and have fun during Michael Bay films…
August 1st, 2007 at 10:55 pm
i, from time to time, will slap on the rock and kick back for 2 hours. as for McG, not so much. i don’t think anyone would honestly suggest him when posing the question “who would be great for a decades old steve mcqueen vanity project about motorbikes in the desert?”. his name only came up because he brought it up.
August 1st, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Yes, but then what other directors working today could you see making this type of movie in a fun and entertaining way? And please leave out directors who would never even consider directing the project…
August 1st, 2007 at 11:56 pm
i don’t know man, it just seems a shame that this project steve mcqueen obviously put a lot of his life into is going to a director who has produced nothing but throwaway flicks. but then again, maybe he’ll finally make something i’d watch more than once and not on a sunday.
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:43 am
As much as I respect your opinions, Peter, I’ll have to stand by skaught’s side with this one. Steve McQueen is one of my all time favorite actors. I’ll even go on record by saying that he’s the last true actor of his kind. The guy was amazing; he had a really intellectual approach to movies that separated him from the others.
Now, if he spent so much time thinking about a movie that personnal and poetic, why is it that a video director gets the chance to revisit it and try to turn it into profit for Warner ?
I may sound a little jugemental, but McG isn’t a guy I would trust with such a projet. I mean… have you seen Le Mans ? I feel this is the kind of movie McQueen was thinking about. And the movie definetely doesn’t look like a McG movie.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Again, I don’t want to sound like the little fanboy complaining but I don’t trust McG’s artistic sensibilities. May I remind you that he’s the same guy who wanted to cast Josh Hartnet as Superman ?
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:39 am
At the same time, McG lost the Superman gig because he fought to film the movie in the United States and Warner Bros didn’t want to spend the money. I actually am also one of the few who liked Singer’s Superman Returns, but one of my complaints is that it doesn’t feel like New York City or metropolis…
McG just needs a good set of producers who know when to reel him in.
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I can only hope that you are right :)
August 7th, 2007 at 11:21 am
‘But the question is, who can replace Steve McQueen?’
Jensen Ackles would be perfect as Steve McQueen - he could be the heir apparent to the king of cool.