Caffeinated Clint
Eastwood to direct Jolie in “The Changeling”
Clint Eastwood’s next film will be a real change of peace for the Oscar Winning director – if only because it’ll be less meat & potatoes, and more soda pop.
Eastwood is in talks to direct “The Changeling” for Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, with Angelina Jolie attached to star.
Lara Croft plays a woman whose son is abducted but retrieved; she suspects, however, that the returned child is not her kid. The woman must then confront corruption in the LAPD.
The story is based on true events in 1920s Los Angeles.
U and Imagine have been high on the project since acquiring it last summer and placing it on a shortlist of films that Imagine partner Howard intended to direct next. When Howard instead committed to adapt the Peter Morgan play “Frost/Nixon,” he and Grazer began thinking of other filmmakers. Since they expect to follow up “The Da Vinci Code” with a pic based on the Dan Brown novel “Angels & Demons,” it was clear Howard wouldn’t get to “The Changeling” for two years.
Howard, Grazer and Imagine exec Jim Whitaker then called Eastwood and asked him to read the script. Though a fixture at Warner Bros., Eastwood had to enlist outside partners to get his most recent films going: “Million Dollar Baby” and the dual pics “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima.”
