Word on the street is that old Clint “Jazz Hands” Eastwood is considering a movie adaptation of Jersey Boys as his next film. The growling, 82-year-old republican might not be the first director who comes to mind when you think “musicals,” but let’s not forget, he did sing the theme song to Gran Torino.  I like to think Jersey Boys will be the world’s first “Gookbox Musical.” In that it will be about Clint Eastwood boxing gooks (his words).

Word has spread around Hollywood that the legendary filmmaker has set his sights on an adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys. Multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Eastwood is in talks with production entity GK Films and Warner Bros. to take on the high-profile project, though neither the studio nor the production company or Eastwood’s reps would confirm the negotiations.
Based on the mega-hit Tony-winning musical, the story chronicles the rise of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and the group’s eventual breakup.
Eastwood, whose most recent film as director was 2011′s J. Edgar (he starred in and produced but did not direct September’s Trouble With the Curve), has long been looking to bring A Star Is Born back to the big screen. Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding is the current choice to star, but that project is having difficulty casting a male lead, with a number of stars passing (Sean Penn’s name being the latest to surface).
Insiders say Eastwood would look to direct Jersey Boys, then follow with Star Is Born. [THR]

With a style that’s the antithesis of OCD tinkerers like David Fincher or Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood is notorious for shooting movies quickly, to the point that he’s been known to shoot shots the actors thought were rehearsals, and then move onto the next one without doing another take. In Gran Torino in particular, where he was working with a bunch of first-time Hmong actors, the actors would go from looking seasoned in one scene to looking like complete amateurs in others, I’m assuming because old Eastwood didn’t feel like doing more than three takes. It’ll be interesting to see how that style plays on the set of musical, and by that I mean I can’t wait for him to accuse his actors of being “light in the loafers” and make theater kids cry. I think I’d rather see the making-of than the actual movie.

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Always the prankster, Clint could never turn down a game of “Grab Oscar’s D*ck”.

Clint Eastwood has only been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor two times in his career, and he unfortunately remains 0-for-2 in that category. Sure, he’s won two Oscars for Best Director, one for Million Dollar Baby and the other for Metallica’s The Unforgiven, and both of those films also earned the Academy Awards for Best Picture, but Eastwood has still never captured the industry’s highest honor for a thespian. Of course, many wonder if he’ll ever have another chance since he ain’t getting any younger at the ripe, old age of 82.

But a lot of critics might suggest that Eastwood has always been a one-trick pony with his scowling tough guy routine, and I’d argue that it was that very routine that should have earned him the Best Actor Oscar in 1992 over Al Pacino’s shouting blind man from Scent of a Woman. Alas, that was 20 years or almost one full Kate Upton ago, and I’m in a celebratory mood, as opposed to my standard scowling young guy mood. Thankfully, Slacktory’s Brian Menegus tossed together a tribute to Eastwood’s signature facial expression, entitled “Squint Eastwood” and now you can relive all of his best moments in one 3-minute video.

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[via YouTube]

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The Expendables was kind of sh*tty (and no, I wasn’t expecting a masterpiece, I was expecting a dumb action movie that had decent stunts and blood that wasn’t CGI) and the second one isn’t out yet, but according to the producers, the franchise is already so successful that the public is clamoring for seven more sequels. Of course, sounding overly confident about potential sequels is kind of what producers do (between starlets and cocaine), but even so, Avi Lerner’s got some crazy ideas:

The Expendables 2 is out this week, and to celebrate, we sat down with producer Avi Lerner to discuss the movie.
And, during our chat, Lerner revealed that he’s in talks with some of the biggest names in cinema for Expendables 3.
“We’ve approached Clint Eastwood to be one of the guys, we’ve got a character in mind for him. We’re talking to Harrison Ford. [And we want] Wesley Snipes when he comes back from prison. I’ll give you one more name, we’ve got Nicolas Cage to play [one of the characters].”
“And we’re going to bring Mickey Rourke back, if he won’t be too crazy. I like Mickey. And of course, all the existing stars [will return].” [TotalFilm]

Eastwood (who’s 82, by the way). Cage. Snipes. Man, you can almost hear the brainstorming session that led to this.

Producer 1: We’ve gotta up the ante for part 3! I say we get someone EVEN OLDER!

Producer 2: And crazier!

Producer 3: And more irrelevant!

(*freeze frame on jumping high five while “The Boys Are Back in Town” fades in*)

Novelty value. It never wears off, am I right?

"Get off my TV lawn."

There are probably a dozen or so celebrities I could name off the top of my head that I would never imagine agreeing to allow cameras into their lives, and somewhere near the top of my list would be Clint Eastwood. I imagine that a cameraman would take one step inside Eastwood’s house before he was greeted with a pipe wrench to the back of his skull and the grittiest utterance of the word “Pussy” ever spoken.

But would I watch a Clint Eastwood reality show? You bet your sandpaper-wiping ass I would. So when E! announced that it was going to air a new reality show about Eastwood in May, I spit tobacco juice all over my computer monitor, and I don’t even dip. There’s just one problem, though – the show’s about his wife and kids.

But rather than a deeper look into the life of esteemed actor and director Clint Eastwood, the series will focus on his wife Dina, their teenage daughters Francesca and Morgan, and ‘Overtone’: the all-male, six member South African vocal group that Dina manages (hence the “Company.”)

“Nothing is more important to me than family – no matter how you define that,” Dina Eastwood said in a statement. “People might be surprised by how we live our lives and our unconventional approach, and I also believe that it’s hard not to fall in love with my band, ‘Overtone.’” (Via EW Popwatch)

It’s not bad enough that it’s just Clint’s wife and daughters, but it’s also based around a boy band. I mean, if Clint doesn’t make random appearances in which he just walks on screen and mumbles, “What the f*ck are you candied fruits doing in my house?” I’m just going to be depressed. It would be like Robert Duvall showing up on Project Runway or George Clooney dating someone his age.

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