08/06/2021 8:11 PM
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Updated 08/06/2021 21:12
There are already the first images of
Cry Macho
, the new film by and with
Clint Eastwood
, set in 1978.
In
Cry Macho
, at 91, he joins a Mexican teenager (Eduardo Minett), saving himself to play Mike Milo, a retired horse breeder and former rodeo star.
He is addicted to alcohol, after losing his wife and son.
And he takes a job from his former boss to take his son, Rafael, back home, away from his alcoholic mother.
Of course the trip turns out to be more challenging than expected, Milo will have to face his own masculinity and his traumas during the trip.
The movie poster.
Photo WB
The project had been around Hollywood for several years, and several directors wanted to direct it.
Even Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted, at the time, to star in it.
When it reaches
Cry Macho
already has a release date: it will hit Argentine theaters on September 16.
The story is based on the novel of the same title, which was published in 1975 and written by N. Richard Nash.
The cast of the film that accompanies Eastwood is made up of Eduardo Minett and Dwight Yoakam, among others.
The novel was originally written as a screenplay, even before Nash turned it into a novel, and Eastwood had already set his sights on it to adapt it for the first time in 1988. But then he put that story aside to film
The Dead Pool
, his Farewell to the iconic Dirty Harry.
Eastwood plays a former horse breeder and rodeo star.
Photo WB
Later, it was another star and former California governor,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
, who took an interest in the story.
And it was even already decided that he would also be the protagonist in a version directed by Brad Furman.
There was even a formal announcement at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Market, but the project was eventually canceled.
But Schwarzenegger wasn't the only one who intended to film this story.
In 1991 there was another attempt headed by Roy Scheider, and it was not successful either.
Finally, after several decades of frustrated attempts to bring the story to the big screen, it was veteran Eastwood who got the project and the title character.
Cry Macho also
marks the return to the director's cameras, after
La mula
in 2018.
Clint with the Mexican teenager Eduardo Minett, whose character he must take on a trip.
Photo WB
Eastwood filmed it in the middle of a pandemic, despite the fact that much of the activity was paralyzed, with productions suspended.
However, everyone in the film industry recognizes that Eastwood is very fast, since for each scene he only takes a couple of takes and is very budget-friendly.
As in each of his new projects, there is always speculation if it will be the last before retiring.
"The Richard Jewell Case" was his last film.
Marking a scene to Paul Walter Hauser (Horacio in "Cruella").
Photo Clarín Archive
His previous film,
The Case of Richard Jewell
, which tells the story of the security guard who discovered a backpack with explosives at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, was shot in 2019 and released between December of that year and January, a couple of months. before the pandemic paralyzed everything.
That production grossed just $ 43.7 million worldwide and earned Kathy Bates an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.
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