Eastwood Eyes J. Edgar Hoover Project: One of this year's sure-fire Oscar contenders is Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, merely because the name Eastwood is attached as director, and now we learn his next film is a biopic of controversial FBI director J. Edgar Hoover with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment. Oscar-winning Milk scripter, Dustin Lance Black, penned the screenplay based on Hoover, who was most recently depicted by Billy Crudup in Michael Mann's Public Enemies.
Hoover was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935 and turned it into an efficient crime-fighting organization. He remained its director until his death in 1972, but his sculpted persona was already coming apart at the seams; he employed the FBI to harass political activists and used illegal methods to make secret files on leaders. Many biographies also assert the man was a closeted homosexual and cross-dresser. Speculation has it ending up at Warner Bros.
Hoover was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935 and turned it into an efficient crime-fighting organization. He remained its director until his death in 1972, but his sculpted persona was already coming apart at the seams; he employed the FBI to harass political activists and used illegal methods to make secret files on leaders. Many biographies also assert the man was a closeted homosexual and cross-dresser. Speculation has it ending up at Warner Bros.
- 3/11/2010
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