Clint Eastwood: A Statement of Purpose

Follow up one Western director for another. It makes sense!

I decided to look through Clin Eastwood’s body of work as a director for a specific reason. When the Discovery/WB merger completed, one of the earliest stories about the takeover was David Zaslav being really angry that WB had greenlit Eastwood’s most recent film, Cry Macho. It was reported that WB knew that the film wouldn’t make its money back, but they greenlit it anyway out of a sense of loyalty to Eastwood. I doubt it would ...