{"id":392,"date":"2008-03-20T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=392"},"modified":"2012-11-14T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T18:32:38","slug":"eastwoods-gran-torino-to-be-dirty-harry-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/20\/eastwoods-gran-torino-to-be-dirty-harry-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastwood&#8217;s GRAN TORINO To Be DIRTY HARRY 6?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, folks, let&#8217;s keep this one firmly in the &#8220;rumor&#8221; category for a moment, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/36068\">AintItCool<\/a> is running a story today where a source claims that the recently announced Clint Eastwood film <strong>Gran Torino<\/strong> will actually be a new, and presumably final, installment of the actor&#8217;s famous <strong>Dirty Harry<\/strong> franchise!<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what AICN\u2019s source had to say-<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recently advertised my 1974 ford grand torino classic original for sale in the local here, and within 24 hours had someone from Village Roadshow Pictures interested in having a look at it. He came. He wasn\u2019t interested for numerous reasons (probably the modifications). He told me they were looking for the right car for a new Clint Eastwood movie.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was a thriller about a killer that drives a certain torino. His 1972 Ford Gran Torino is the only thing the police have on him. A retired police lieutenant, one Harry Callahan, makes it his mission to track down the culprit when two young police officers, one Callahan\u2019s grandson, are shot and killed by the guy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, given that it is from some guy who claims he was trying to sell his car to an overly chatty studio lackey, it certainly sounds interesting. I only have one question about the plot synopsis. It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve seen any of the <strong>Dirty Harry<\/strong> movies, but I don\u2019t recall Eastwood\u2019s Harry Callahan having any immediate family, either a wife, an ex-wife or a child in or out of wedlock.<\/p>\n<p>Eastwood\u2019s &#8220;Dirty&#8221; Harry Callahan has been absent from screens for two decades, last appearing in 1988\u2019s <strong>The Dead Pool<\/strong>, though there have been sequel rumors that would make the rounds every couple of years. Given that Sly Stallone has successfully revisited both his <strong>Rocky<\/strong> and <strong>Rambo<\/strong> franchises in the past few years and Harrison Ford has returned for one last <strong>Indiana Jones<\/strong> picture, it is not unbelievable that Warner Brothers would want to try and cash in with a visit to one of their own older franchises. The question remains, though, would Eastwood be up for a final <strong>Dirty Harry<\/strong> romp? He seems pretty well settled into his current directorial groove that he may not be inclined to step back out in front of the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">OK, folks, let&#8217;s keep this one firmly in the &#8220;rumor&#8221; category for a moment, but AintItCool is running a story today where a source claims that the recently announced Clint Eastwood film Gran Torino will <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/20\/eastwoods-gran-torino-to-be-dirty-harry-6\/\" title=\"Eastwood&#8217;s GRAN TORINO To Be DIRTY HARRY 6?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-coming-soon"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}