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Trailer: "Steve McQueen: The Man & LeMans"


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#1 AustinF1

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Posted 02 August 2015 - 09:36

Cannot wait for this film...

 



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#2 Dan333SP

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Posted 02 August 2015 - 10:46

This is the first I've ever heard of this docu, goosebumps watching the trailer. I'm excited!

#3 Felix

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Posted 02 August 2015 - 12:25

STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN & LE MANS

SYNOPSIS

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In May 1970, Steve McQueen flew to France to begin work on the film that meant more to him than any other.

 

The 1960s had been his golden decade. He lived in a Beverley Hills mansion so palatial it was referred to in Hollywood circles as ‘The Castle’. He had two children and a beautiful wife, Neile.

 

McQueen had announced himself in a classic western The Magnificent Seven before starring in The Great Escape, the war movie hit at the box office. He had charmed critics in the romantic success, The Thomas Crown Affair, before defining the role of the maverick cop in Bullitt - the film that made car chases a staple of the movie industry. Bullitt had been McQueen’s fifth hit film in a row. He was at the top of his game, commanding respect and wielding power. McQueen could work for himself, choose his own material and reap the benefits. And at last he could make the film that had been his passion for the best part of a decade …Le Mans.

 

Cinema Center Films invested in a $6 million budget, the largest for a McQueen film to date. The legendary film-maker John Sturges (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven) would direct. McQueen’s business partner and close friend Bob Relyea would head up the production. The star and his film would want for nothing. Authenticity was at the centre of McQueen’s unique vision. He wanted to capture the real danger, and the true essence of racing. McQueen’s unique vision would require racing at actual racing speeds day in, day out. Le Mans had the biggest star in Hollywood, one of its great directors, the best technical team ever assembled. This is the story of how one of the most charismatic movie stars of all time would lose almost everything in the pursuit of his dream.

 

 

“A few months before production we sent out a

poster of McQueen in a race car.

The phones were ringing off the hook.

This was a sure thing, this could not miss.”

Bob Rosen, Executive Producer, Cinema Center Films

 

“What was happening when we were shooting this movie should happen to no man. ”

Bob Rosen, Executive Producer, Cinema Center Films



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Posted 02 August 2015 - 16:56

Highly looking forward to this.

 

Such a great movie in spite of being short on dialogue and any real plot of substance.

 

For me it's simply incredible to watch, the camera work rivals Grand Prix easily for me.

 

The onboard footage from Le Mans 1970 is priceless.

 

Any footage of the 917 is worthwhile for me...I consider it to be the greatest race car ever built.



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Posted 02 August 2015 - 17:22

I was there. My first Le Mans. I shall never tire of watching this film, looking forward to the documentary.

#6 Felix

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Posted 02 August 2015 - 19:56

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans

 

Another trailer, some different footage in parts. Believe there will be some more pre-release screenings (in London) in Sept/Oct, with public release timed for early November - unfortunately at the same time as Spectre (J Bond). 



#7 V8 Fireworks

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Posted 03 August 2015 - 04:07

Why do we need a movie about a movie !?  What's the point!?



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Posted 03 August 2015 - 05:29

I was there. My first Le Mans. I shall never tire of watching this film, looking forward to the documentary.

 

I wasn't at Le Mans but I was at Spa-Francorchamps in May 1970 to see the 917s and 512s live, and it was something else.  10 years old.  I was in heaven!



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Posted 03 August 2015 - 09:04

Why do we need a movie about a movie !?  What's the point!?


Well, its a documentary.

And Argo won Best Picture for being a movie about a fake movie!

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Posted 03 August 2015 - 19:08

Why do we need a movie about a movie !?  What's the point!?

 

It's about how a passion almost drove a celebrated icon to ruin. It's going to have a lot more substance than the original movie, for what that's worth. Don't watch it if the premise offends you, they make movies about teenage vampires that seem utterly pointless to me yet make hundreds of millions of dollars.



#11 AustinF1

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Posted 03 August 2015 - 19:13

Sure, and they make "The Making of ...." documentaries all the time. This is one of those and a bit more, imho. It seems to be about the man as much as the movie.



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Posted 03 August 2015 - 19:36

Why do we need a movie about a movie !?  What's the point!?

 And I have reservations that this "movie" will focus on the characters and politics and very little on the racing and cars.

 

I don't read the tabloids of watch TMZ, I watch racing and sim race. I have no interest in personalities or celebrities just because they are famous.



#13 Felix

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Posted 03 August 2015 - 19:53

And I have reservations that this "movie" will focus on the characters and politics and very little on the racing and cars.
 
I don't read the tabloids of watch TMZ, I watch racing and sim race. I have no interest in personalities or celebrities just because they are famous.


Then by all means play simulations while we watch one man's passion in action.

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Posted 03 August 2015 - 19:58

This is mostly unrelated, but back in the days of the Speedvision network here in the US, they ran a show called Lost Drive In that would show racing/car related movies on Sundays. When they aired Grand Prix, they did an extended intro where they spent an hour discussing the production and filming of the movie with John Frankenheimer (the director, before he passed in 2002).

 

It was really fascinating to see the techniques they needed to develop in order to make the film in 1966. I'd imagine a lot of the staff from that production were hired by McQueen for Le Mans 4 years later. I think McQueen was originally supposed to play the role of Pete Garner in Grand Prix until financial issues between the producers and the actor got in the way.



#15 Felix

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Posted 04 August 2015 - 10:27

Sure, and they make "The Making of ...." documentaries all the time. This is one of those and a bit more, imho. It seems to be about the man as much as the movie.

I am told by one of the producers that they unearthed a heap of previously unseen/unused footage.

 

I think McQueen was originally supposed to play the role of Pete Garner in Grand Prix until financial issues between the producers and the actor got in the way. - James Garner played Pete Aron 


Edited by Felix, 04 August 2015 - 10:28.