Variety reports that Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper (
American Sniper,
American Hustle,
Silver Linings Playbook) may be reuniting with Oscar winner Clint Eastwood (
Letters from Iwo Jima,
Million Dollar Baby,
Mystic River) on
The Mule, the drama Eastwood is directing and will also star in.
In
The Mule, Clint Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough but, unbeknownst to Earl, hes just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does wellso well, in fact, that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl is assigned a handler. But he isnt the only one keeping tabs on Earl; the mysterious new drug mule has also hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates. And even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earls past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and its uncertain if hell have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartels enforcers, catch up to him.
Cooper will be playing the DEA agent. This movie would mark Eastwoods first acting role since 2012s
Trouble with the Curve.
