According to multiple sources, Eastwood is in talks to direct the drama that tells the story of a security guard whose life gets turned upside down after media reports identified him as a possible suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing.

Jewell went from hero to suspect after he reported on the knapsack bomb at the 1996 Summer Games. Despite his report and the fact he helped clear bystanders, he found himself as the main suspect in a terrorism plot. Jewell was eventually cleared. He died in 2007 of a heart attack at the age of 44.

The script was penned by Billy Ray. Should Eastwood join the project, it’ll be the first feature film he has directed since 2008’s Changeling.

The film has been long in development and over the years actors including Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio were attached to star.

Deadline was first to report the news. 

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The film is the third remake of the 1937 film, with previous versions having starred Judy Garland and James Mason, and Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.

The latest installment, however, was set to look quite different originally.

Clint Eastwood and Beyoncé were attached to the project when talks began in 2011, but plans went awry.

“There was a moment where that was the best version of the movie and then all of a sudden, Beyonce got pregnant. Do we wait?” the film’s producer, Bill Gerber, told The Hollywood Reporter. “She was amazing about all this stuff. She always understood if we were going to take a different direction. And then Clint went off and did another movie.”

You might describe the entire thing as fate if you’re Bradley Cooper.

The 43-year-old originally passed on the film, feeling he was too young, but when presented with the opportunity again, Gerber says, “he was happy to hire himself as the actor because he was a little older at [that] point and he felt like he could portray the character better.”

We think he did a pretty good job.

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According to multiple sources, Eastwood is in talks to direct the drama that tells the story of a security guard whose life gets turned upside down after media reports identified him as a possible suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing.

Jewell went from hero to suspect after he reported on the knapsack bomb at the 1996 Summer Games. Despite his report and the fact he helped clear bystanders, he found himself as the main suspect in a terrorism plot. Jewell was eventually cleared. He died in 2007 of a heart attack at the age of 44.

The script was penned by Billy Ray. Should Eastwood join the project, it’ll be the first feature film he has directed since 2008’s Changeling.

The film has been long in development and over the years actors including Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio were attached to star.

Deadline was first to report the news. 

The post Clint Eastwood Wants to Direct “Ballad Of Richard Jewell” appeared first on TheDailyDay.

The film is the third remake of the 1937 film, with previous versions having starred Judy Garland and James Mason, and Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.

The latest installment, however, was set to look quite different originally.

Clint Eastwood and Beyoncé were attached to the project when talks began in 2011, but plans went awry.

“There was a moment where that was the best version of the movie and then all of a sudden, Beyonce got pregnant. Do we wait?” the film’s producer, Bill Gerber, told The Hollywood Reporter. “She was amazing about all this stuff. She always understood if we were going to take a different direction. And then Clint went off and did another movie.”

You might describe the entire thing as fate if you’re Bradley Cooper.

The 43-year-old originally passed on the film, feeling he was too young, but when presented with the opportunity again, Gerber says, “he was happy to hire himself as the actor because he was a little older at [that] point and he felt like he could portray the character better.”

We think he did a pretty good job.

The post Here’s Why the Other Version of “A Star Is Born” Didn’t Work Out appeared first on TheDailyDay.