Steve McQueen’s Treasure-Hunt Project ‘Yucatan’ Revived: Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer Set To Pen Netflix Movie Produced By Robert Downey Jr. – The Dish
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: A longtime passion project imagined by the late Steve McQueen has been revived. Two decades after the iconic actor’s son Chad McQueen and family friend/Warner Bros exec Lance Sloan began development on the film Yucatan, Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Blue Beetle, Miss Bala) has been set as the screenwriter of the project that is now in early development at Netflix, we understand.
Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey remain attached as producers under their Team Downey banner. Both Netflix and Team Downey declined to comment.
McQueen’s vision involved a story about a renegade salvage expert’s search for Mayan treasure in the Yucatan Peninsula with him taking the lead.
Details regarding where Dunnet-Alcocer will take the story are under wraps. Mexican writer Dunnet-Alcocer is working fresh with McQueen’s script, which was discovered years after his 1980 death as part of a collection of notebooks he left behind in a pair of trunks.
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