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18 September 2009
Damon Heads For Eastwood's Hereafter
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Source: Variety

Damon Heads For Eastwood's Hereafter

At the age of 79, Clint Eastwood is still looking for new genres to explore, and Variety reports this morning that his next directorial effort will be spookshow The Hereafter starring Matt Damon.

The plot is under wraps, but Warner Bros are describing it, rather unimaginitively we feel, as "like The Sixth Sense". C'mon guys, that was ten years ago. There must be more to it than that.

The screenplay is by Peter Morgan, who was nominated for an Oscar for Frost/Nixon, and the film, which was once a Dreamworks project will be exec-produced by Steven Spielberg (him again), Frank Marshall and Tim Moore. Kathleen Kennedy and usual Eastwood suspect Robert Lorenz will be full-fledged producers, alongside the man himself.

Matt Damon of course, has just worked with Eastwood on the Nelson Mandela  / South African Rugby drama Invictus, in which he plays Springboks flanker Francois Pienaar opposite Morgan Freeman's Mandela. 

Invictus (it's Latin for 'unconquered', you know) should be out at the end of the year, and shooting on The Hereafter is set to begin in the next couple of months.

 

Owen Williams

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