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‘Juror #2’: Read The Screenplay For Clint Eastwood’s Tense What-Would-You-Do Legal Thriller


Juror #2, Clint Eastwood's courtroom thriller starring Nicholas Hoult, was written by Jonathan Abrams.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Juror #2, the courtroom thriller starring Nicholas Hoult and the 42nd film directed by Clint Eastwood. Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, Leslie Bibb, Amy Aquino and Adrienne C. Moore also star. The scribe, making his feature screenwriting debut after producing 2013’s Stallone-Schwarzenegger prison thriller Escape Plan, says he came up with the idea for Juror #2 after doing some work as a consultant to a prosecutor friend adding a Hollywood touch to his opening and closing arguments.

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