Warner Bros. announced a release date on October 22 for Clint Eastwood’s latest film, “Cry Macho”.
The western story is based on the 1975 novel by N. Richard Nash and starring Eastwood along with Eduardo Minett and Dwight Yoakam.
The screenplay is written by Nash and Nick Schenk.
Set in 1978, Eastwood plays an ex-rodeo star and failed horse breeder who accepts the job of an ex-boss to take the man’s son home and away from his alcoholic mother. Crossing rural Mexico on their way back to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the weary world rider can find his own sense of redemption by teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
The novel was originally written as a screenplay before Nash turned it into a novel, and Eastwood considered adapting it for the first time in 1988. Arnold Schwarzenegger was set to star in a version directed by Brad Furman that was announced at the Cannes Film Festival 2011, but was canceled after her divorce from Maria Shriver.
The 90-year-old director and actor continued to make successful films well beyond the age that most directors slow down.
His latest film as a director, “Richard Jewell,” grossed $ 44 million worldwide and received a supporting actress award nomination for Kathy Bates. Paul Walter Hauser starred as the real-life security guard whose life became chaotic after he was listed as a possible suspect in the Olympic Park bombing during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, after discovering a suspicious abandoned backpack.
Eastwood’s 2018 release, “The Mule,” in which he also starred, told the story of a retired man who becomes a drug delivery man and raised $ 185 million worldwide.