Caffeinated Clint
A few years back there was all sorts of talk of a 70-something Clint Eastwood playing the retired ‘Dark Knight Returns’ incarnation of Bruce Wayne in a film that Warner Bros was looking to do (as a way of expunging the badness that was Joel Schumacher’s “Batman & Robin”). It never came off, but not surprisingly the idea of Eastwood playing a veteran superhero had readers applauding from their swivel chairs.
If “X-Men : First Class” helmer Matthew Vaughn gets his way, Eastwood will don a cape before he decides ‘enough is enough’ (in regards to acting; though he has said he’s going to keep on doing it until his final days). The Brit filmmaker, who seems to have a real enthusiasm for comic book movie projects, is bringing the upcoming novel “The Golden Age” to the big screen. The flick will tell the story of a group of old timers who once worked as superheroes, one of whom would be played by Eastwood (if Vaughn can convince the actor cum filmmaker to do it).
Bleeding Cool were the first to mention the project, written by Jonathan Ross with Deadline chiming in later with more news and Vaughn’s wish-list of actors.
”Matthew Vaughn tells me that a major Hollywood studio is very keen to fully fund his next big project: The Golden Age about a retirement home where superheroes end up. And the title is also a reference to early comic books of the 1930s when Superman and Batman first appeared. It’s based on the yet-to-be-published comic book written by Brit TV chat show host Jonathan Ross, who’s a huge comics buff. Vaughn is currently in LA editing X-Men: First Class for Fox, but tells me he wants to get actors attached to the new project before the script is written. His wish list is Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, and Warren Beatty to play the retired superheroes who help out their grandchildren when their middle-aged parent screw up the world.”
It’s funny, all those guys – Eastwood, Nicholson and Beatty would be perfect for such parts. Eastwood was once approached to play ‘Superman’ back before Christopher Reeve was cast and, as I said, has been linked to the role of Batman at different times too. Nicholson’s done superhero movies (1989’s “Batman”) but never played a superhero. Beatty’s played ‘Dick Tracy’, but never a comic book hero with a cape and mask.
Can you imagine the dollars this film would make!?
