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Clint Eastwood Takes Aim on the FBI and the Media in
Clint Eastwood factors a stern finger at FBI investigators and the media within the first trailer for his new fact-based drama “Richard Jewell,” which explores the safety guard who reported discovering an explosive system on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics — after which was falsely accused of planting it himself.
Paul Walter Hauser (“I, Tonya”) stars as Jewell, joined by Kathy Bates as his mom, Sam Rockwell as his lawyer, Jon Hamm because the lead FBI investigator and Olivia Wilde as Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs.
“They want to fry you,” Rockwell’s lawyer tells Jewell because the trailer means that FBI brokers and the media pushed a false narrative of his culpability.
“Jewell fits the profile of the lone bomber, a frustrated white man who is a police wannabe who seeks to become a hero,” Wilde’s reporter says at one level, whereas Hamm and one other investigator press Jewell to make incriminating statements on tape “to clear your name.”
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The movie follows the true story of Jewell, whose fame because the hero who reported an explosive system at Atlanta’s Centennial Park was adopted simply days later by headlines figuring out him because the FBI’s No. 1 suspect.
Eastwood directed from a screenplay by Oscar nominee Billy Ray (“Captain Phillips”), based mostly on the Vanity Fair article “American Nightmare — The Ballad of Richard Jewell” by Marie Brenner. Eastwood additionally produced underneath his Malpaso banner, alongside Tim Moore, Jessica Meier, Kevin Misher, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson and Jonah Hill.
The movie arrives in theaters Dec. 13.
Watch the trailer above.
Clint Eastwood’s 5 Worst and 5 Best Movies as a Director, From ‘The Rookie’ to ‘Unforgiven’ (Photos)
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With “Sully” touchdown in theaters, we glance again on the Oscar winner’s highlights (and lowlights) as a filmmaker.
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The Worst: “The Rookie” (1990)
In the wake of two small, private motion pictures (“Bird” and “White Hunter Black Heart”), Eastwood confirmed actual rust copying the ’80s vogue for brash buddy-cop motion pictures: This one’s simply empty brutality, dumb jokes, thankless roles (poor Sonia Braga and Raul Julia), and hilariously terrible thriller plotting. Eastwood appears bored taking part in one other crusty lawman teamed with a beginner (Charlie Sheen), whereas the mayhem — trashed bars, crashes, shootouts, explosions — feels just like the work of a caged style icon lashing out.
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“The Eiger Sanction” (1975)
A bizarre misfire for Eastwood, who’s at a loss to make the tacky espionage story work, and unconvincing on display as an artwork professor-secret murderer within the Bond mould; he appears to be like able to burst out laughing having to do scenes with a cackling albino spymaster named “Dragon.” (The much less stated about an African-American seducer named Jemima Brown the higher.) Though the climactic mountaineering sequence has its breathtaking moments, it is a clichéd slog until then.
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“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” (1997)
Eastwood’s atmospheric strengths and underappreciated directing of actors eluded him in realizing John Berendt’s best-selling nonfiction e-book a couple of Savannah, Georgia homicide trial. It’s an overlong guidelines affair of clunky scenes and colourful gamers, however with little of the lived-in eccentricity rendered within the e-book. Even the great performances — particularly, Kevin Spacey and as-herself Lady Chablis — are winking wind-up toys relatively than emblems of an unique, enchanting place.
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“Changeling” (2008)
A weird true story from the 1920s turns into…