Bradley Cooper and Steven Spielberg in 2019.Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Bradley Cooperis teaming up withSteven Spielberg.
The outlets reported that McQueen’s son Chad and granddaughter Molly will be executive producers.
Spielberg, whose newsemi-autobiographical movieThe Fabelmansis now in theaters, almost directed Cooper in the 2014 movieAmerican Sniperbut backed out andClint Eastwoodultimately directed the drama.
The two are also collaborating on the upcomingLeonard Bernstein biopicMaestro, which Cooper is directing and starring in and Spielberg is producing. Singer also co-wrote it with Cooper.
Steve McQueen inBullitt(1968).Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock
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CoopertoldVarietyearlier this yearofMaestro, “I always knew that Steven Spielberg knew that I had this obsession with conducting. He had this biopic idea and was talking to me about potentially acting in it. But I had just been working onA Star Is Born. And I said, ‘Listen, all I want to do is write and direct movies. I always felt like I could play a conductor, but may I research the material and see if I can write it and direct it? Would you let me do that?’ "
“Steven has a lot of interests — he’ll just choose one thing and all of the other things will be on hold,” said Cooper. “I think he knew he wasn’t going to make that movie for a while. He was kind enough to hand it off to me, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the last four and a half years.”
source: people.com
