“Invictus” Trailer
Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for “Invictus,” starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Springboks captain Francois Pienaar.
Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Invictus
The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
“Invictus” is directed by Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino). The screenplay was written by Anthony Peckham (Don’t Say a Word, Sherlock Holmes) and is based on John Carlin’s book “Playing the Enemy” and is scheduled to hit theaters on December 11th, 2009.
Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” Poster
The first poster for director Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” (formerly titled The Human Factor), starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman has been released.
The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Matt Damon to Star in Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter”
Matt Damon will star in supernatural thriller “Hereafter,” Clint Eastwood’s next producing-directing project for Warner Bros. Pictures, set to begin shooting this fall.
Peter Morgan, who got an Oscar nomination for “Frost/Nixon,” wrote the script. Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Morgan and Tim Moore are executive producing. Spielberg previously worked as producer on Eastwood’s “Flags Of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima.”
Not much has been said about what Damon’s role will be in the film. All we know, is that he’ll star as the lead character.
Morgan Freeman As Nelson Mandela In Invictus – First Look
Check out the first unofficial look at Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela from the upcoming Clint Eastwood-directed drama “Invictus,” previously titled “The Human Factor.” The new film’s title refers to a poem by William Ernest Henley that was often recited by Mandela.
The newest Eastwood’s project sees Matt Damon as rugby star Francois Pienaar, who created, along with Nelson Mandela (Freeman), an event that gave whites and blacks in South Africa a common cause to rally around as the country was trying to heal from the wounds of apartheid.
They formed a strong relationship when South Africa hosted the Rugby World Cup in 1995.
The movie is an adaptation of John Carlin’s book “Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation” and the script for “Invictus” was written by Anthony Peckham.
“There’s a whole long story as to how this came about, but the key point is that I met Morgan Freeman by absolute chance in a small town in Mississippi in June 2006 and it all took off from there. He had been wanting to play Mandela for several years but had not found a filmable story. This, it turned out, was it. Five months later we closed a deal, a screenwriter came over from California to pick my brains for a week, the script he came up with was great. Morgan Freeman loved it. So did his pal Clint Eastwood. Warner Bros too. So Freeman will be Mandela, Matt Damon will be in the film too and Eastwood will direct. Shooting starts in South Africa early in 2009, I understand,” said John Carlin.
“Invictus” which also stars Scott Eastwood, Langley Kirkwood, Grant Roberts and Bonnie Henna will hit theaters on December 11th, 2009.
Oscar Buzz – Gran Torino And Two TV Spots
Warner Brothers recently debuted two short TV spots for “Gran Torino” and here they are. You can also see some images from the movie.
Movie critics were not so thrilled by Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling,” but numerous early reviews of “Gran Torino” put Eastwood’s second movie in 2008 into Oscar consideration.
In “Gran Torino” Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices.
Great Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” Trailer
The trailer for the upcoming Clint Eastwood movie “Gran Torino” is currently playing in front of Eastwood’s “Changeling” which will opens in US cinemas.
In “Gran Torino” Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices.
Eastwood is producing, directing and even composing music for movies at an age when other filmmakers would be retired. The screenplay was written by newcomer Nick Schenk (I Shot Myself) with story assistance from first-timer Dave Johannson. Warner Brothers has scheduled a limited December 17th release for Gran Torino, which puts Eastwood and company into Oscar consideration again. Continue Reading…
Eastwood’s “Gran Torino”
The last Clint Eastwood’s appearances on-screen was four years ago as the boxing manager in “Million Dollar Baby,” which earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor.
He’s back again in “Gran Torino” in which stars as Walt Kowalski – a racist Korean War veteran.
His Gran Torino character is Walt Kowalski, a racist Korean War veteran whose prized possession is a classic car that catches the eye of local gangs in his Detroit neighborhood. One of the troubled kids who covets the vehicle is from a family of Hmong immigrant neighbors, whom Kowalski has long resented. The story comes down to two objects … his 1972 Ford muscle car and his M-1 rifle. … He worked on the line in the Ford plant and retired and had this one car he bought himself. It’s sort of a symbol of his days with the Ford plant. The M-1 is sort of a symbol of his days in the military. … He’s clinging to the memory of the war. … The young kid, as part of a gang initiation, tries to steal it, and the old guy gets him at the end of the M-1, which becomes kind of a big deal … The kid has to do penance because of the pride of the Asian group. They make him do penance. He has to come over, and the old guy doesn’t want anything to do with him, doesn’t want him anywhere around. … The fastest way to rid himself of the boy, Kowalski decides, is to cooperate.
Eastwood is producing, directing and even composing music for movies at an age when other filmmakers would be retired.
At 78, Eastwood can still look furious as this new teaser poster shows. “Well, I’m older now. It’s easier to look angrier when you’re an old guy,” he tells USA Today with a laugh.
“It’s got a lot of twists and turns in the story,” indicating some darker moments. “It also has some good laughs.”
The first trailer for “Gran Torino” can be seen this weekend before Eastwood’s “Changeling,” while “Gran Torino” opens on December 17th, 2008.
Clint Eastwood’s Changeling Official Poster
The first poster for the upcoming Clint Eastwood-directed mystery film “Changeling,” starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich, has been released featuring a shot of Jolie looking at a little boy, with the tagline stating: “To find her son, she did what no one else dared.”
The story follows a woman (Angelina Jolie) whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles. The police return the wrong child and the woman is thrown into an insane asylum for disagreeing with the LAPD.
When it seems that her real son has been murdered by a child serial killer and the child returned admits to fraud, she takes her case to the city council and takes down the mayor, the police chief and several corrupt officers, concurrently sparking changes in the insanity legislation. Continue Reading…
“Changeling” – First Trailer
Clint Eastwood-directed mystery film “The Exchange,” previously titled “The Changeling,” had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and we’ve got finally the first trailer for the movie starring Angelina Jolie.
Angelina Jolie in "Changeling" ("The Exchange")
The story follows a woman (Angelina Jolie) whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles. The police return the wrong child and the woman is thrown into an insane asylum for disagreeing with the LAPD.
When it seems that her real son has been murdered by a child serial killer and the child returned admits to fraud, she takes her case to the city council and takes down the mayor, the police chief and several corrupt officers, concurrently sparking changes in the insanity legislation.
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Clint Eastwood Tells Spike Lee to “Shut His Face”
Clint Eastwood has advised rival film director Spike Lee to “shut his face” after the African-American complained about the racial make-up of Eastwood’s films.
In an interview with the Guardian published today, Eastwood rejected Lee’s complaint that he had failed to include a single African-American soldier in his films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, both about the 1945 battle for the Japanese island.
In typically outspoken language, Eastwood justified his choice of actors, saying that those black troops who did take part in the battle as part of a munitions company didn’t raise the flag. The battle is known by the image of US marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi.
“The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go: ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.” Referring to Lee, he added: “A guy like him should shut his face.”
Read Spike Lee’s Clint Eastwood criticism from Cannes just last month
