By Two decades after it began development, it looks like the late acting icon Steve McQueen’s passion project “Yucatan” is being revived.
Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (“Blue Beetle,” “Miss Bala”) has been set as the screenwriter of the project which is now in early development at Netflix according to Deadline.
In addition Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey remain attached as producers under their Team Downey production company.
The story follows a renegade salvage expert’s search for Mayan treasure in the Yucatan Peninsula. McQueen, when he was alive, had hoped to take the lead role.
The script was discovered years after his 1980 death as part of a collection of notebooks he left behind in a pair of trunks. Mexican writer Dunnet-Alcocer is working fresh with McQueen’s script, though what changes he’ll make are unclear.
He marks the fourth writer to have a go following Paul Scheuring, Anthony Peckham and Terry Rossio who were linked at different times. Downey Jr. is being speculated as a potential star as well, but casting is a long way off.
Source: Deadline
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