Edited sentence: However, he felt the script was flat and turned down the offer.Steve McQueen never made another Irwin Allen film, he died shortly after passing on "The Towering Inferno 2".Steve McQueen was offered the lead role in the film Raise the Titanic.Steve McQueen was under contract to Irwin Allen after appearing in The Towering Inferno, after refusing a part in "The Towering Inferno 2", that film was scrapped and Paul Newman was brought in to make When Time Ran Out..., which turned out to be a huge box office bomb and critical failure, ending the careers of many involved with the production