Clint is more true stories – Pulse of San Luis

The angels.-veteran Clint Eastwood is on the way to direct a film project that does not have definitive title, with a script written by Billy Ray Richard Jewell, a security guard who discovered a suspicious backpack, which turned out to be a bomb during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Jewell, will be played by actor Jonah Hill, who has twice been nominated for an Oscar, while Leonardo DiCaprio is expected to be the lawyer who helped him after it was linked to the fact.

After the hit movie “Sniper” Eastwood can give luxury to choose the project you want to send. Even this time a disjunctive two major film companies interested in working with him, Warner and Fox exists, although the actor has always worked with the first, both companies are trying to find a common point in making the film.

“The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” as title your article in 1997 journalist of Vanity Fair Marie Brenner, focuses on the story of a security guard who was considered, at first, a hero after evict everyone in the area, where it was to take place an attack, thus saving lives. Three days went from hero to main suspect because he was accused of being responsible for placing the bomb in order to become a “false savior”, but ultimately it was shown that not planted the bomb.

The film will be produced by DiCaprio through his company Appian Way, and also have credit as a producer Jonah Hill. Both wanted to work together again after the successful and pleasant experience of the film “The Wolf of Wall Street”.

The process is still in discussions on the budget, an item that should not worry so much because Eastwood octogenarian with “Sniper” spent $ 58 million and grossed around 535 million.