Clint Eastwood’s ‘The Ballad of Richard Jewell’ Moves to

Clint Eastwood is formally connected to direct “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” and Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to launch the movie, which was beforehand at Disney-Fox, a person with data of the undertaking informed TheWrap.

“The Ballad of Richard Jewell” relies on the story of a safety guard who was thought-about a attainable suspect of a bombing that befell Atlanta’s Centennial Park in the course of the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based mostly on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, initially hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and serving to evacuate the realm, grew to become linked because the FBI’s prime suspect within the Olympic Park bombing, fully upending his life within the course of.

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Eastwood has been eyeing to direct the undertaking for a while, with Fox having acquired the film rights again in 2014. At the time, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill have been to reunite on display, with Hill portraying Jewell and DiCaprio because the lawyer who guided Jewell via the authorized proceedings.

Neither DiCaprio nor Hill will seem within the movie now, however each are nonetheless producers together with Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Kevin Misher, DiCaprio’s companions at Appian Way Productions.

“The Ballad of Richard Jewell” reunites Eastwood with Warner Bros. after it launched his final movie, “The Mule,” the place Eastwood starred reverse Bradley Cooper. It grossed $171.three million on the world field workplace.

Variety first reported the information of the undertaking’s transfer.