Eastwood’s latest film explores the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover, the legendary FBI chief who was one of the most powerful, controversial and enigmatic figures of the 20th Century. J. Edgar also stars Naomi Watts, Judi Dench and Armie Hammer.
J. EDGAR
J. EDGAR, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Westwick, Damon Herriman, Armie Hammer, Ken Howard, Judi Dench and Josh Lucas, directed by Clint Eastwood.
Naomi Watts plays Hoover’s secretary Helen Gandy, a Justice Department file clerk Hoover selected as his personal secretary and wound up working for him for over 54 years…
Josh Lucas plays the iconic Charles Lindbergh
Armie Hammer (The Social Network) plays J. Edgar Hoover’s friend, advisor and secret lover Clyde Tolson
Damon Herriman plays Bruno Hauptman, “a German ex-convict who was charged with the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of famous pilots Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh”
But his conviction was later questioned and resulted in Hoover launching an FBI inquiry into the handling of the case.
Stephen Root plays “Arthur Koehler, an introverted man and wood specialist who helps J. Edgar Hoover piece together the mystery of the Lindbergh kidnapping case through an examination of the ladder used by the abductor.”
Jeffrey Donovan plays Bobby Kennedy
Hoover was a controversial figure as Wiki puts it… “He exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI. He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders, and to collect evidence using illegal methods” He remained director until his death in 1972
Originally housed at Universal, the studio put the project into turaround. Brian Grazer was producing through his Imagine Entertainment but now with Eastwood directing, HOOVER is set up at Warner Bros, home to almost 35 movies that Eastwood has made. Grazer and Eastwood previously worked on Changeling. Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star as J. Edgar Hoover in the biopic J. EDGAR, to be directed by Clint Eastwood, from a script written by Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black
Lance Black’s script is said to explore the two men’s complicated relationship. they dined, they socialized, they vacationed, but they never admitted they were gay and Hoover being a stubborn vengeful hypocritical bastard that he was, he would hunt down those who dared question his sexual preference. But after he died, Tolson was the beneficiary of Hoover’s life insurance policy and his estate and house as well.
J. EDGAR opens November 9th, 2011
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