Edward Zwick isn’t done just yet.
The 72-year-old filmmaker, who last year was out promoting his brutally candid memoir Hits, Flops, and Other Things — one of the better Hollywood tell-alls in recent memory — seemed, at least to me, like a man making peace with retirement. The book read like a final word, the kind of behind-the-scenes honesty you only get from someone ready to close the door on their career.
Not so. Per THR, Zwick is gearing up to direct “The Creed of Violence,” an adaptation of Boston Teran’s 2009 novel. He’ll direct, write, and produce.
The book is a revisionist Western set during the Mexican Revolution, tracking the uneasy alliance between a government agent and a hired killer — men bound by a dark secret — as they traverse a violent, corrupt landscape. There are already plans to turn this into a trilogy, with Teran’s other novels (”The White Country” and “Gardens of Grief”) also eyed for adaptation.
The novel has long circled Hollywood, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale once attached to star, and a separate version with Daniel Craig and director Todd Field stuck in development.
For Zwick, a classicist filmmaker,it’s another ambitious project in a career full of them. Some of his most notable works include “Glory,” “Legends of the Fall,” “The Last Samurai” “ Blood Diamond,” and “Courage Under Fire.”
Five decades in the business, both in TV and film, and instead of slowing down, it seems like he’ll be continuing on.