Clint Eastwood, 93, finishes rumored FINAL film Juror No. 2 starring Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette... and studio is 'thrilled' with footage
Clint Eastwood has just completed Juror No. 2, which is rumored to be the final movie the legendary filmmaker will direct.
The 93-year-old - who was seen looking frail last month - cast Nicholas Hoult as a man who comes to a chilling realization while sitting on a jury.
Gradually, it dawns on the character that he may have been culpable in the car accident that killed the person whose homicide is being tried.
He finds himself in the nail-biting position of having to decide whether to keep his own name clear or help the innocent defendant get acquitted.
Postproduction has now wrapped on the movie, and sources told Variety that its studio, Warner Bros, is 'thrilled' by the footage it has been shown.
Clint Eastwood has just completed Juror No. 2, which is rumored to be the final movie the legendary filmmaker will direct; pictured in 2020
The 93-year-old - who was seen looking frail but lively last month - cast Nicholas Hoult (pictured in October) as a man who comes to a chilling realization while sitting on a jury
Nicholas is at the head of a formidable cast that includes Toni Collette (pictured March 2023), Zoey Deutch, Kiefer Sutherland, JK Simmons, Leslie Bibb and Chris Messina
Nicholas is at the head of a formidable cast that includes Toni Collette, Zoey Deutch, Kiefer Sutherland, JK Simmons, Leslie Bibb and Chris Messina.
The movie had a tumultuous road to completion, as the shoot had to be stopped for months last year because of the Hollywood strikes.
Furthermore, a number of studios reportedly rejected the project before Clint was able to find it a home at Warner Bros.
As postproduction concluded on Juror No. 2, Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader quipped: 'Eastwood is the great-grandfather of the geriatric generation.'
However he noted that the acclaimed Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira 'worked till he was 104. So Clint still has a ways to go to catch him.'
News of Juror No. 2 first surfaced in a March 2023 report by Discussing Film, which claimed Clint hoped to retire from showbiz after the project.
Last month, DailyMail.com obtained footage of Clint appearing aged and worn - but still full of joie de vivre - in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
The Hollywood icon, who was briefly the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea in the 1980s, was attending a 90th birthday event for famed primatologist Jane Goodall.
Last month, DailyMail.com obtained footage of Clint appearing aged and worn - but still full of joie de vivre - in Carmel-by-the-Sea
The completion of Juror No. 2 comes 65 years after Clint achieved his big break as an actor on the successful western series Rawhide (pictured 1959)
His star rose with such roles as the Man With No Name in Dollars Trilogy - a set of spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone - and the title character in the bad cop classic Dirty Harry (pictured)
In 1971, the year Dirty Harry was released, Clint also made his directorial debut with the thriller Play Misty For Me starring him opposite Jessica Walter
Although he was joined by an assistant at the fete, Clint was able to walk up onto the stage by himself at the Sunset Cultural Center.
The completion of Juror No. 2 comes 65 years after Clint achieved his big break as an actor on the successful western series Rawhide.
His star rose with such roles as the Man With No Name in the Dollars Trilogy - a set of spaghetti westerns by the renowned Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone - and the title character in the bad cop classic Dirty Harry.
In 1971, the year Dirty Harry was released, Clint also made his directorial debut with the thriller Play Misty For Me starring him opposite Jessica Walter and Donna Mills.
