Here’s 93-year-old Clint Eastwood’s, supposedly, “final film” and it’s coming out later this year. Insiders are telling Variety that Warner Bros. is “thrilled” by what it has seen so far of “Juror #2.”
If the film is ultimately embraced, that will offer a fitting plot twist considering several studios passed on the low-risk, low-budget film. Even at 93, Eastwood should never be counted out.
No, he shouldn’t.
His filmography has been nothing but consistent these last six decades. Some of his very best include “Unforgiven,” “Mystic River,” “Gran Torino,” “Changeling,” “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” “Pale Rider,” “High Plains Drifter,” “A Perfect World” and “Million Dollar Baby.”
Eastwood’s last film was one of the worst offerings of his career, 2021’s “Cry Macho,” but his twilight years have still been, creatively speaking, very fruitful. I’m particularly keen on 2018’s “The Mule,” and 2019’s “Richard Jewell” — both very good.
A few months back, THR had reported that Eastwood “wanted to find one last project in order to be able to ride off into the sunset with his head held high.” He found the script for “Juror No. 2” and said this is “the one”. This will probably be the narrative used by Warner Bros. during awards season: “Clint’s final film”.
“Juror No. 2” stars Toni Collette, Nicholas Hoult, Kiefer Sutherland, J.K. Simmons, Zoey Deutch and Chris Messina. The film is “set during a murder trial where one of the jurors slowly realizes he might have killed the victim in a reckless-driving accident and tries to save the defendant without incriminating himself.”
The latest update on the film is that it just wrapped post-production and is ready to go.
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