FROST/NIXON's Morgan Penned Script, HEREAFTER Eyed by Eastwood

Variety has announced that Clint Eastwood is in talks with DreamWorks to direct the supernatural thriller Hereafter for the company led by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider.

The script by Peter Morgan (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland, The Other Boleyn Girl) and will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy, reports Variety.

Morgan's Frost/Nixon, the film version of his Tony winning play will hit the big screens in December.

Eastwood directed Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) for Spielberg.

Clint Eastwood has two "award buzzed" films in release this year The Changeling and Gran Torino.   

Oscar®-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the untold story of the historic encounter that changed both: Frost/Nixon. Reprising their roles from Morgan's stageplay are Frank Langella, who won a Tony for his portrayal of Nixon, and Michael Sheen, who fully inhabited the part of Frost onstage in London and New York.

Frost/Nixon not only re-creates the on-air interview, but the weeks of around-the-world, behind-the-scenes maneuvering between the two men and their camps as negotiations were struck, deals were made and secrets revealed...all leading to the moment when they would sit facing one another in the court of public opinion.

Frost/Nixon is a collaboration between Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Films, with Academy Award® winners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard joining Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner as producers. Joining Langella and Sheen as the colorful real-life personalities who provide the men counsel is a formidable roster of actors including Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones and Matthew Macfadyen.

Photo Credit: Retna Ltd.

 

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