Clint Eastwood seems restless. The American director and actor, at the age of 94, is preparing to open his fiftieth feature as a director: Juror No. 2. A 2022 film written by Jonathan Abrams and starring Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Bibb, Chris Messina and Zoe Deutch.
The feature film tells the story of Justin Kemp (Holt), a man who is selected as a jury with other citizens in a murder trial. During the hearing, he realizes that he may be the real killer. Then a difficult dilemma arises for him. Should he plead guilty and uphold the law or use his position to manipulate the other members of the jury and get away with it?
Warner Bros has just announced that the legendary filmmaker’s new – and likely final – film will hit our theaters in a month and a half: October 30th. shooting of Juror #2 It debuted in June 2023 between Savannah and Los Angeles before going on hiatus due to a cast strike. Post-production was completed last April.
A release date that will allow the film to be nominated for the next Oscar. I remind you, multi-awarded Clint Eastwood It has already won 4 Oscars (Best Director and Best Picture for Impitoyable and Best Director and Best Picture for Million Dollar Baby). He has also been nominated many times for his role as director and actor.
It is quite rare that a filmmaker is not announced in the casting of the 2nd jury. His last screen appearance was in 2021 in Cry Macho, which he directed. In this western, he played Mike, a fallen rodeo star who is tasked with a seemingly impossible mission: to go to Mexico to find a troubled teenager and bring him to Texas. To do this, he will have to confront the Mexican underworld, the police and his own past.
Jury No. 2 will be presented at the closing ceremony of the AFI (American Film Institute) Film Festival on Sunday, October 27th and will be released in limited US theaters on Friday, November 1st.
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