Feature film “Gran Torino”, with Clint Eastwood, airs Sunday evening on TF1. Did you know that it is rumored to be the new Inspector Harry opus?
In March 2008, the news had little effect: while The Exchange, his drama starring Angelina Jolie, was due to be released on American soil in November, Clint Eastwood announced that his next film would be released a month later. We don’t know anything about the project other than the title, Gran Torino, and the fact that the actor will be back in front of the camera four years after the triumph of Million Dollar Baby, which earned him, personally, two. Of the four Oscars won by a feature film.
While many are trying to figure out what this mystery film will be about, Not cool news Made a big announcement the other day: according to a letter received by the site, Gran Torino, which will be broadcast this Sunday night on TF1, was actually hiding… the sixth part of the adventures of Inspector Harry.
Twenty years after the release of The Last Target (Clint Eastwood’s concession to Warner so the studio would let him direct the biopic Bird in return), the baddest cop in ’70s American cinema would come out of retirement to stalk him. The grandson’s killer, also a police officer, and whose car investigators identified only as a 1972 Ford Gran Torino.
According to the letter, the content of which was disclosed Not cool newsThe producers were looking for a car for the film. Although incredible, this rumor failed to arouse the curiosity of many Internet users, in the middle of a year when already John Rambo and Indiana Jones came out of their retirement, like Rocky Balboa in 2007.
The hypothesis that Clint Eastwood will say goodbye to Inspector Harry Callahan, as he did with the western Ruthless in 1992, is increasing, and it is the main interest that stops the corridors of noise, in May, during this period. Cannes Film Festival and L’Échange press conference, presented in competition. Then, at 78, the actor and director says he would be too old to return to the police force anyway.
Released in French cinemas on February 25, 2009 to very positive reviews in the United States, Gran Torino tells the story of a Korean War veteran, racist and misanthropic, who confronts a gang when he wants to protect a young man. who tried to steal his car.
Eastwood’s biggest French success with over 3.4 million admissions at the end of its run (and $270 million worldwide), the feature film isn’t really related to the Inspector Harry saga, but it’s hard not to think of the character when watching Walt Kowalski. who shares the same icy gaze, the same coldness, the gun in hand, and the same phrasing in his croaky voice. Knowing the filmmaker’s penchant for playing with the myths of his own filmography, this is probably no coincidence.
Did you notice the little hidden details of the Gran Torino?
Source: allocine
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