Clint Eastwood May Return to Acting in Drug Mule Film
According to MovieWeb, 87-year-old actor Clint Eastwood may be eying his return to acting in The Mule, a true story about Leo Mule, the world's oldest drug mule. Sharp was 87 when authorities caught him, and 90 when sentenced to prison. This will would be Eastwood's first starring role since Trouble With The Curve in 2012.
In 2011, Leo Sharp was arrested while in possession of more than 200 pounds of cocaine. He was tracked down by the DEA through wiretapped phone conversations. Sharp had no criminal record and was a decorated World War II veteran. His defense team argued that dementia was the reason for his unlikely path and he was sentence to three years in prison. He was released early due to deteriorating health, and he died a year and a half later.
Eastwood was recently working on Impossible Odds in 2016 but that was dropped to direct his new film The 15:17 to Paris, which is a true story about three Americans who prevented a terrorist attack on a train to Paris in 2005. The three heroes play themselves in the film.
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