ROTTEN TOMATOES: Clint Eastwood Directing, Starring in Gran Torino

Clint Eastwood Directing, Starring in Gran Torino

The acting bug bites one more time.

by Jeff Giles | March 20, 2008

For a guy who's continually rumored to be done with acting, Clint Eastwood is doing a pretty good job of staying busy in front of the camera.

Variety reports that Eastwood has agreed to direct and star in Gran Torino, a just-announced Warner Bros./Village Roadshow film being targeted for a December release...and that's about all we know, actually. From the article:

Details of "Torino" are being kept under tantalizingly tight wraps. Existence of the film, and Eastwood's role, were only revealed on Tuesday when Warner quietly dated the movie for sometime in December.

As Variety points out, a December release will put Gran Torino up against another Eastwood film -- he directed Changeling, the "child abduction drama" starring Angelina Jolie that's reaching theaters November 7.

Though he hasn't acted since directing himself in 2004's Million Dollar Baby, Eastwood has remained busy behind the camera, directing Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima; according to Variety, he's also confirmed to direct the Nelson Mandela biopic The Human Factor for Warners.

Source: Variety

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donwillymo writes:
on Mar 20 2008 05:33 AM

****, Eastwood could develop a cure for cancer if he set his mind to it...what the hell isn't he good at?

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John Z. Delorean writes:
on Mar 20 2008 06:25 AM

I guess he can be forgiven for FireFox.

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akatsuki writes:
on Mar 20 2008 07:43 AM

What else can i say?

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frogleg writes:
on Mar 20 2008 07:52 AM

I wish Clint Eastwood was my dad.

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BuckyUnderbelly writes:
on Mar 20 2008 08:25 AM

Wow. How is it possible that directors a third his age can only crank out a movie once every three years ... while Clint consistently turns out at least one ... sometimes TWO ... quality films every year! It's astounding! The older he gets the more efficient and productive he becomes!

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arendr writes:
on Mar 20 2008 08:39 AM

Clint is the man. Always has been, always will be.

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chazbow writes:
on Mar 20 2008 08:40 AM

Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds should do another movie together.

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reavus4983 writes:
on Mar 20 2008 09:06 AM

I really hope it's another western.

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Oblivioncry writes:
on Mar 20 2008 09:37 AM

Changeling will probably be the first good movie with jolie.

Eastwood drops every year a quality film like spielberg.

i really wish Eastwood would be my dad too.....

he's TEH man

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Haimster writes:
on Mar 20 2008 09:46 AM

He is a humble filmmakker who attracts real actors with real scripts. Hollywood is very fortunate to have him around, as are the rest of us.

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~*Admiral Snowstorm*~ writes:
on Mar 20 2008 10:07 AM

It will be a sad day when Clint Eastwood dies, and we don't get treated to a new Eastwood film at least once a year. For the time being, though, we are lucky film lovers with a man like Eastwood in Hollywood.

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on Mar 20 2008 10:19 AM

Very cool, I wonder what it's about and who else is in it. That's pretty damn cool that he's acting again, I was starting to wonder if he really was just going to stick with directing.

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arendr writes:
on Mar 20 2008 11:21 AM

Clint Eastwood makes me want to move to Carmel by the Sea.

Well that and all the other reasons to live there.

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Highlonesome writes:
on Mar 20 2008 12:45 PM

Hmmm...he just now agreed to direct and star in this film.

Then the article states the movie will be released this year, in December.

Which only leaves 8 months to get actors, build the sets, and start filming...now even adding preproduction.

Then the editing process.

Meh...I say it'll be a 2009 release.

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silverage writes:
on Mar 20 2008 12:46 PM

He will be playing Dirty Harry in this movie, out to get revenge on the people who killed his grandson, a police officer.

Who else besides Starsky and Hutch drove a Gran Torino in film or tv?

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agniyo writes:
on Mar 20 2008 12:47 PM

Anybody else misread this headline at first as, "Clint Eastwood Directing, Starring in Gran TURISMO"?

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trpsomewhere writes:
on Mar 20 2008 12:59 PM

In reply to this comment (#1643889)
I did! :-D and I was totally lost for a second! I haven't even played that game since it was a 2D game with a top-level view of the city! :-s

subliminal messaging? maybe...

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arendr writes:
on Mar 20 2008 01:02 PM

In reply to this comment (#1643886)
Wow, that's actually a real possibility. It says things are being kept under tight wraps.

But why would they name a Dirty Harry movie after the car?

Unless that's a working title.

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silverage writes:
on Mar 20 2008 01:09 PM

Why name it after the car? because in the story line, all that a retired Dirty Harry has left to remind him of "the good old days" is his Gran Torino, that's why.

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arendr writes:
on Mar 20 2008 01:23 PM

In reply to this comment (#1643947)
1) Dirty Harry
2) Magnum Force
3) The Enforcer
4) Sudden Impact
5) The Dead Pool
6) Gran Torino?

It's kind of an awkward title when you compare it to the rest of the series.

If Stallone was involved it would be called "Dirty Harry Callahan".

But I am starting to think this is the final Dirty Harry movie. Interesting.

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