Overview
- Netflix is developing a new take on the 1972 Sam Peckinpah crime thriller The Getaway with Philip Barantini set to direct and Peter Craig writing the script.
- Craig will produce with Bryan Unkeless through their Night Owl Stories banner, joining producers Andrew Mittman for 1.21 plus Barantini and Samantha Beddoe for It’s All Made Up.
- Executive producers named include Kai Dolbashian of 1.21, Rey Reyes, and Gregory Cohen of Night Owl Stories.
- The film is in early development with no cast, start date, or release plan announced, and Barantini is busy on Netflix projects Rabbit Rabbit and Enola Holmes 3.
- The project draws on Jim Thompson’s 1958 novel and follows earlier screen versions led by Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw in 1972 and by Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in 1994.