What’s more, he’s also stepping behind the camera too (for the first time since the edgy 1998 satirical comedy Bulworth) for a yet untitled comedy for Paramount. Deadline are reporting that the studio has confirmed that Beatty is in pre-production (working on a script he wrote) and the casting process has now begun.
Beatty was once a cinematic force to be reckoned with. He shepherded in the New Hollywood era with 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde, and appeared in a number of features now regarded as classics (alongside the tale of those two young bank robbers, he was the star of seminal 70’s paranoia thriller The Parallax View and Robert Altman’s much-cherished revisionist western McCabe & Mrs. Miller). Ten years is a long time to be away from the motion picture industry, and it will be interesting to see if the actor (now 74) can do something which resonates with an audience of this era.
