Jesse Wigutow has been hired to pen the screenplay for a biographical treatment of screen legend Steve McQueen for producers Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters, The Hollywood Reporter is reporting.

Wigutow’s script will be drawing from Marshall Terrill’s biography “Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel,” which the film rights to were bought back in January by Cerenzie (“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”) and Peters (“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”). Cerenzie-Peters Productions will produce with the film for Paramount, alongside Arthaus Pictures’ Brian Oliver and Chuck Rock. Graham Kaye, Cerenzie-Peters Productions president, is executive producing alongside Brett Granstaff, Keith Watkins and Kenny Johnson.

Terrence Steven “Steve” McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American movie actor best known as “The King of Cool”, his anti-hero persona, and for being one of the few actors of his time to do all his own stunts. He appeared in such films as “Bullitt”, “The Great Escape”, and “The Magnificent Seven”. After appearing in “The Towering Inferno” in 1974 he was the highest-paid actor in the world at the time.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)