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Clint Eastwood Bemoans “Era Of Remakes And Franchises,” Urges Filmmakers To “Do Something New Or Stay At Home”
After four Oscar wins, veteran filmmaker Clint Eastwood has picked up some nuggets of wisdom to impart on his colleagues.
The venerated actor and director recently gave an interview to Austrian newspaper Kurier, per Reuters, urging fellow filmmakers to come up with original ideas and bemoaning the “era of remakes and franchises.” “I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. The 95-year-old behind Oscar winners like Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, both of which he also starred in, added in the interview that he has no thoughts of retiring and planned to keep working “for a long time yet.”
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