Variety reports that producer Kevin Kasha (The Butterfly Effect 2) has picked up the rights to the book My Husband, My Friend, Neile McQueen Toffel’s memoir of her life married to Steve McQueen.
McQueen, most probably one of the coolest movie stars of all time, is experiencing a career resurgence despite being dead since 1980. Along with this film, we can also look forward to the prospect of Yucatan, a heist thriller that McQueen was developing in the years before he died. Along with Toffel, McQueen’s last wife Barbara has written a book titled Steve McQueen: The Last Mile, which chronicles their brief marriage before the star fell victim to lung cancer.
Yucatan seems to be the more intriguing of the pair, it was passed from Christopher Nolan to McG and penned by the creator of Prison Break Paul Scheuring. What are the odds that Daniel Craig gets approached for one of, if not both these projects? Craig is the closest visual facsimile to McQueen and also gives off an effortless cool – the comparison really hits home in Munich, where Craig played a character called Steve, was Eric Bana’s driver, and also showed a penchant for turtle-neck sweaters!
