I learned about the Eastwood Rule, something the Director's Guild of America made up following Clint Eastwood overthrowing Philip Kaufman on Outlaw Josey Wales. He was the writer/director of the movie originally, they clashed over things, Kaufman wanted something more authentic, like spitting tobacco and calling it "tobacky," and Eastwood wanted the Spaghetti Western cool. The former did stay in a bit, the tobacco spitting mainly.
Anyways, the rule being that nobody who works on the same thing as a director, can fire and replace a director, more pointed at actors and producers. Eastwood replaced him as director, Kaufman still got a writing credit. As a result, Eastwood made the perfect loophole to that rule...starring, producing, and directing his own movies. He did direct and act in Play Misty For Me and some other movies, perhaps this incident made him continue that with fervor. Also, not only taking Kaufman's directing gig (and doing a great job at it, don't think someone else could've done a better job), he also took Kaufman's partner at the time...Sondra Locke. He hired her, Kaufman objected, but yeah, that's very interesting.
I'm a massive Eastwood fan by the way. I just learned through looking at IMDB that he's going to act again, in a movie he's directing, Bradley Cooper is apparently going to be on it too, The Mule. A 90 year old horticulturalist and WWII veteran caught smuggling $3 million of cocaine to Michigan for the Mexican cartel. I assume that means it will be released in 2020? That's when Eastwood turns 90 years old, wow.
I need to watch an Eastwood movie, it's been years now, shamefully. Jackie Chan was to my childhood as Clint Eastwood was to my adulthood, that's much I value the man.
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