Clint Eastwood's next - supernatural thriller "Hereafter"

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November 13, 2008


Clint Eastwood is in talks to direct the supernatural thriller "Hereafter" for DreamWorks.

Company, led by principals Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider, picked up the spec penned by "Frost/Nixon" scribe Peter Morgan in March when it was still a part of Paramount Pictures. DreamWorks held onto the project as part of its separation pact with the Melrose studio and has been wooing Eastwood to board the project for months.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is described as in the vein of "The Sixth Sense."

Kathleen Kennedy is producing.

Eastwood, who has two films in awards season contention this year -- "The Changeling" and "Gran Torino" -- previously worked with Spielberg on "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima," both of which Spielberg produced.

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Matt Damon will star in "Hereafter," Clint Eastwood's next producing-directing project for Warner Bros., with lensing on the thriller set to begin this fall.

For Eastwood, the project's a move into supernatural territory.

Warner Bros. is keeping the logline under wraps beyond describing the project as a thriller in the vein of "The Sixth Sense."

Peter Morgan, who received an Oscar nomination for "Frost/Nixon," penned the script.

Eastwood's producing through his Warner-based Malpaso banner with Kathleen Kennedy and Eastwood producing partner Robert Lorenz. Kennedy and Marshall's company will receive a production credit.

Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Morgan and Tim Moore are exec producing. Project was originally set up at DreamWorks.

Damon can currently be seen in Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant."

Eastwood first expressed interest in "Hereafter" late last year when it was still at DreamWorks, which had picked up Morgan's spec in March 2008 when it was still a part of Paramount. DreamWorks held onto the project as part of its separation pact with the Melrose studio.

Eastwood previously worked with Spielberg on "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima," both of which Spielberg produced.

[wufongtan.]

Great stuff. Eastwod is one of the best directors doing the rounds today. I"Ve allways wondered what a thriller/horror would be like if he or mel gibson who is THE best director in hollywood.

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Bryce Dallas Howard is no stranger to supernatural thrillers, having starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and Lady in the Water.

This time around it looks like she’s joining Matt Damon and High Tension star Cecile de France in Clint Eastwood’s next project, Hereafter. Written by Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland, The Queen), the film “tells the story of three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are touched by death in different ways.”

Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, and Peter Morgan are among the executive producers.

The film will apparently take place across Hawaii, San Francisco, London, and Paris. Thierry Neuvic (Tell No One) and Mylène Jampanoï will join the cast for the French portions.

This looks like a decent change of pace for Eastwood, assuming it actually deals with the supernatural. Further plot details (see below) have made that aspect of the film a bit unclear. It’s also slightly ironic that he chose Howard for the film, given the Sixth Sense vibe many people are reporting from the film’s concept.

If you’re interested in the further (slightly spoilery) plot details, check out below:


De France will be Marie, a French journalist who is nearly killed in the 2004 tsunami. At the same time, 12-year old Marcus loses his twin brother in London. Those parallel instances of near-death lead each character to Damon’s psychic, a factory worker named George, who can talk to, and perhaps see the dead. He’s not much interested in using his abilities, and the script becomes a story about those three primary characters interacting and trying to figure out what happens after death.


Given that description, this could very well be the Babel of supernatural thrillers.

[Frank Zubek]

Clint Eastwood's newest dircting gig is called HEREAFTER (opens Oct 22)
and stars Matt Damon as a man who has given up his psychic work

I would think this counts as a horror film even though it doesn't have the usual big breasted helpless screaming females and psychotic madmen running through dark cornfields with a bloody chainsaw. Not that I don't like those kind of films too.....

here is the trailer to HEREAFTER
http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/hot-...ods-hereafter/

[Frank Zubek]

Sorry, guess I missed the earlier thread!