Eastwood takes on Hoover

Clint Eastwood is ready to tackle his next directorial project, this time it’s in the form of a biopic on J. Edgar Hoover. This particular biopic is rich in story, ripe enough for Eastwood to take on with Brian Grazer producing under Imagine Entertainment along with Robert Lorenz under Clint’s Malpaso banner. Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black is already penning the script.

Hoover was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935 and turned it into an efficient crimefighting organization. He remained its director until his death in 1972, but his sculpted persona was already coming apart at the seams; he employed the FBI to harass political activists and used illegal methods to make secret files on leaders. Many biographies also assert the man was a closeted homosexual and cross-dresser (THR).

Eastwood just finished wrapping up principal photography on the supernatural thriller Hereafter, poised to be released sometime this December under Warner Bros. Pictures.