At 94 years old, Clint Eastwood has a legendary career behind him. The upcoming Juror No. 2 is said to be his final outing as a director and will likely be the capstone on a long and distinguished career. Nobody was quite sure when the completed film was set to release, with some earlier reports suggesting that the film would slip into 2025. However, according to Tom Linay on X/Twitter it looks like Warner Bros have elected to give the film a November release here in the UK, with a similar US date sure to follow. Linay has reported on these matters previously and has generally been correct, so we feel confident enough to run a story on his reporting.
Juror No. 2 stars Toni Collette, Nicholas Hoult, Kiefer Sutherland and Zoey Deutch. The film is “set during a murder trial where one of the jurors slowly realises he killed the victim in a reckless-driving accident and tries to save the defendant without incriminating himself.”
Whilst Quentin Tarantino is seemingly tying himself up in knots regarding his self-imposed final film of his career, you have Eastwood at the other end of the spectrum, a filmmaker that has simply kept making projects all the way into his ninth decade. In recent years, we’ve got 2018’s The Mule, 2019’s Richard Jewell and 2021’s Cry Macho.
Whilst those movies may not (as Tarantino has argued) reach the zenith of Eastwood’s earlier period, there’s plenty in those films to admire, especially Richard Jewell which allowed Eastwood to successfully add to his favourite theme of the societal outsider, doing what they must to survive. It turned Paul Walter Hauser, last heard in Inside Out 2, into a star too.
This news does contradict a previous report by Variety’s Clayton Davis and assuming its accurate, means that Warner Bros’ marketing department have a busy end to the year, with BeetleJuice Beetlejuice coming up, not to mention Joker: Folie À Deux, which is about to premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Could the film’s November release suggest that the studio is looking to give it an awards push? If so, that would certainly put another dent in the Tarantino theory, but as it stands we’ll wait and see if this report is accurate.