Actor Brad "Fight Club" Pitt will star as 'Detective Frank Bullitt', for Plan B and Warner Bros., in a re-make of the 1968 action film "Bullitt".The original film starred actors Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn and Jacqueline Bisset, with Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Carl Reindel, Felice Orlandi, Vic Tayback, Pat Renella, Paul Genge, Bill Hickman, Norman Fell and Brandy Carroll, distributed by Warner Bros.
The director was Peter Yates. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the novel "Mute Witness" (1963) by Robert L. Fish (aka Robert L. Pike).
Lalo Schifrin wrote the film's original music score.
"Bullitt" won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller) and was nominated for Best Sound. Writers Trustman and Kleiner won a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.
Bullitt is most-remembered for its central car chase scene through the streets of downtown San Francisco, one of the earliest and most influential car chase sequences in movies.
The scene had Bullitt in a dark "Highland Green" 1968 Ford Mustang G.T.390 Fastback, chasing two killers in a "Tuxedo Black" 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Magnum.
