Warner Brothers just announced that Clint Eastwood has been signed to star and direct Gran Torino a mysterious new project that is being fastracked to quickly shoot and be ready for release by December. This is puzzling as Eastwood has another film he directed, the Angelina Jolie starring "The Changeling" coming out in November, in time for awards consideration, and it's unusual for a major filmmaker to release films so close together. The hot new rumor, is that this is actually a new Dirty Harry film, with a retired Harry Callahan coming out of retirement to avenge his grandson-cops death! Ain't it Cool is printing this rumor, and some guy in the L.A. area who was selling a '76 Gran Torino has come forth to say that someone from Warner Brothers wanted to buy his car for use in a new Dirty Harry movie. This could all be bullshit, but it's sort of interesting that Eastwood chose THIS year, an election year, to produce a new installment of his rather right wing Dirty Harry franchise...
As a gay man who's not that interested in cars, or Clint Eastwood (other than the thought that 1960's era Eastwood was extremely fuckable), I have to admit that this is sort of a brilliant idea. And that car, familiar to Starsky and Hutch fans, is pretty fucking cool, even if you're not a car nut...
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