Variety reports Clint is in talks for Warner Bros. biopic starring Bradley Cooper.
After losing Steven Spielberg as
director, Warners Bros. has acted quickly to find a director for “American
Sniper” with Clint Eastwood in talks to helm the biopic starring Bradley
Cooper. Spielberg’s apparent reason for dropping the project was due to his
inability to merge his vision for the film with the fixed budget. Jason Hall
penned the script for “Sniper” about a Navy SEAL recounting his military career
that included more than 150 confirmed kills. Film is based on the book
“American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military
History” by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan and Jim DeFelice. Cooper’s production
company 22nd & Indiana Pictures and Andrew Lazar’s Mad Chance Productions
optioned rights to the book a year ago. Eastwood is in production on the
adaptation of “Jersey Boys” and would jump to “American Sniper” once the
musical finishes filming.
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL
Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military
history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills
(the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the
astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much
they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle
earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army
soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth
positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his
extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the greatest war memoirs
of all time.
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