Following their success with “Adolescence,” streaming giant Netflix and director Philip Barantini are teaming for a second remake of the 1972 Steve McQueen-led action film classic “The Getaway”.
The original film was helmed by Sam Peckinpah and penned by Walter Hill, based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson. McQueen and Ali McGraw played 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 give chase across an overheated state.
The property was then adapted for the screen again in 1994 with married couple Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
Peter Craig, writer of Ben Affleck’s “The Town” and who has worked as a producer on films from “The Batman” to Netflix’s just-launched “Remarkably Bright Creatures,” will produce alongside partner Bryan Unkeless. Barantini, Andrew Mittman and Samantha Beddoe also produce.
Barantini and Craig are currently in production on the hostage drama mini-series “Rabbit Rabbit” starring Adam Driver and Regina Hall. Barantini most recently directed the third “Enola Holmes” film due out this Summer.
Source: THR
