Clint Eastwood is back behind the camera for a closed court session this Wednesday, October 30. Is this the filmmaker’s last film?
Aged 94, Clint Eastwood is one of Hollywood’s last veterans. While his “last film” has been announced for several years, the legendary American director is releasing a new feature film this Wednesday, October 30. Juror #2 is a judicial closed session on a strong moral dilemma: an ordinary father discovers, while he is a juror in a high-profile murder trial, that he is in truth the culprit of the crime. Will he exert his influence to free or convict the accused?
If Juror #2 is released in cinemas in France this Wednesday with high expectations, it is not the same in the United States. Clint Eastwood’s 42nd feature film is entitled to an American release limited to only 50 theaters, with almost non-existent promotion. The director himself missed the American premiere on Sunday October 27. An absence which did not fail to raise new questions about the state of the filmmaker and his cinematic future.
However, it is difficult to know whether Juror #2 will truly be his last film and if he has really decided to put his camera away. In 2021, for the release of Cry Machohe avoided the question of retirement in an interview with Le Figaro: “Perhaps a day will come when I say to myself that I have had enough, that I no longer want to make films. That has never been the case before as far as I’m concerned.” Has this day come with Juror #2 ? Since the person concerned did not give interviews for the release of the feature film, it is impossible to know.
Because his thirst for cinema depends on the projects that are offered to him (he explained in an interview that he works “on the fly”) but also on his health, which would have been impacted by the death of his partner, Cristina Sandera, in July 2024, according to Radar Online . The uncertainty therefore remains, but Clint Eastwood’s official X account wanted to be reassuring a few weeks before the release of Juror #2: “Back to work, studying scenarios in its offices in Malpaso, in October 2024.”
Synopsis – Justin Kemp, an ordinary family man, finds himself a juror in a highly publicized murder trial. Faced with a heartbreaking moral dilemma, he realizes that he has the power to influence the jury’s verdict, which could decide whether to convict or free the accused.
At the casting, Juror #2 brings together American stars, such as Nicholas Hoult (The Great, Mad Max Fury Road) in the main role, accompanied by Tony Collette (Heredity, Knives Out)JK Simmons (Whiplash, Oz, Spider-Man), Chris Messina (The Mindy Project), Gabriel Basso (The Night Agent), Zoey Deutch (Little tricks, Return to Zombieland), Cedric Yarbrough (Reno 911), Leslie Bibb (Palm Royale) And Kiefer Sutherland (24 chrono hours).