Can Clint Eastwood Revive his Magnum?
Is there a shortage of hunky young actors in Hollywood these days or is it cheaper to employ a senior citizen?
Rumours are abounding that 77 year old Clint Eastwood is to revive the character of Harry Callahan in the title role as San Francisco Police Department Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan in what would be the 6th Dirty Harry movie.
Following hard on the tail of Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis, who have both recently attempted CPR on their characters, Rocky Balboa the boxer and Detective John McClane in the Die Hard series of movies, Clint could be dusting off his old Magnum to be let loose on the punks of San Francisco.
So who will play the Oscar winning actor’s love interest in the new Dirty Harry. He was scrapping the barrel in The Bridges of Madison County, in his attempts to play a love struck senior with Meryl Streep and that was 13 years ago? Maybe he could tempt Shirley MacLaine, Elizabeth Taylor or even Angela Lansbury.
If the movie is made with a touch of tongue in cheek humour, it could work, but making Clint the cool, calculating villain chasing cop he was back in 1971, would just leave him a laughing stock anyway.
I guess this time around when he asks the question, ‘Did I fire six shots or only five,’ we can put the lack of memory down to senility and the ‘dirty’ label could be attributed to his need for incontinence pads!
Who knows, maybe we’ll see Sean Connery coming back as James Bond some time soon now that would be worth seeing!
ABB