{"id":13874,"date":"2011-04-29T22:06:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T03:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=13874"},"modified":"2018-11-29T23:13:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:13:25","slug":"renner-opens-production-company-first-project-is-steve-mcqueen-bio-pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/29\/renner-opens-production-company-first-project-is-steve-mcqueen-bio-pic\/","title":{"rendered":"Renner Opens Production Company; First Project Is Steve McQueen Bio-Pic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jeremy Renner is quite the busy boy. Not only is currently shooting<\/a> The Avengers<\/strong>, but has an appearance in the next Mission: Impossible<\/strong> film already in the can and has recently signed<\/a> up for The Bourne Legacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In-between all this, he has just started his own production company, and has started development on its first project – a bio-pic of acting legend Steve McQueen.<\/p>\n

The proposed film will be based on the two biographies of McQueen written by Marshall Terrill-Portrait of an American Rebel<\/em> and The Life and Legend of a Hollywood Icon<\/em>. James Gray, writer\/director of The Yards<\/strong>, is adapting the two books into a screenplay, but is not set to direct the film. Instead, music video and commercials director Ivan Zacharias has been tapped to direct what will be his feature film debut.<\/p>\n

Coming out of the New York stage and live television scene of the 1950s, McQueen had his first starring role in the classic 1958 science-fiction film The Blob<\/strong>. His performances in such films as The Great Escape<\/strong>, Bullitt<\/strong> and others made him an icon of cool.<\/p>\n

Now I’ll have to admit that I have not yet read either of Terrill’s books on McQueen, but tales of McQueen’s wild personal life are fairly legendary. I have talked to enough people who met him while he was in Phonexville, PA filming The Blob<\/strong> to know that while those stories are very probably true, he was also a pretty nice and good man. It seems to me that McQueen’s wild side is an outgrowth of a certain joie de vie that the actor had. Hopefully, the film will be able to capture that.<\/p>\n

Via The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The actor sets his sites on an icon of cool.<\/div>\n

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