Clint Eastwood to Direct Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette in ‘Juror No. 2’
thewrap.comchatter over the last year as to whether Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav had burned bridges with the longtime WB icon over whether he would have greenlit Eastwood’s commercially unsuccessful “Cry Macho,” this new movie is indeed set for Warner Bros.
Discovery where it will presumably get a conventional theatrical release. Because sometimes inside baseball chatter or venting is just that.
Or, perhaps after watching Chris Nolan pack his bags for Donna Langley’s Universal and, amid a new studio arms race for prestigious talent which saw –for example — Universal and Warner Bros.
trading James Wan for M. Night Shyamalan (presumably on a bridge in the dead of night), Zaslav knew it was a smart long-term investment to keep Eastwood in-house whether this film is actually a hit.
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