Oscar Outlook 2012: Trouble with the Curve

Amy Adams dancing with Pip-squeak

It has been almost twenty years since Clint Eastwood has stepped in front of the camera for anyone else but himself.  The last time he gave up control as director he was In the Line of Fire for Wolfgang Peterson, a highlight in the career of the German filmmaker who showed such promise in Das Boot.  Trouble with the Curve will mark the directing debut of Eastwood's producing partner Robert Lorenz, who began with Eastwood as first assistant director on Absolute Power.  The two have been working closely together ever since.  Randy Brown's (yeah, I don't know who he is either) screenplay concerns a recruiter (Eastwood) in his twilight years bonding with his daughter (Amy Adams).  I take exception to the film's subject matter, because Eastwood is going to live forever, so it's impossible for him to be in his "twilight years."

Steve Burns = Matt Bush ?

The cast includes John Goodman, Robert Patrick, Matthew Lillard, some former member of 'N Sync who wants to be taken seriously as an actor, Chelcie Ross (one of Detective Nick Curran's adversaries in Basic Instinct), Mr. Amy Adams (Darren Le Gallo),  nepotastic Scott Eastwood, and some new hottie named Matt Bush who looks like the reincarnation of Steven Burns from Blue's Clues!  Like the director, many of the major talent behind the camera are part of Eastwood's posse including editors Joel Cox (won an Oscar for Unforgiven, nominated for Million Dollar Baby) and Gary Roach, cinematographer Tom Stern (nominated for Changeling), production designer James J. Murakami (nominated for Changeling), and Art Director Patrick M. Sullivan Jr.

Trouble filmed in Georgia earlier this year and Warner Brothers will release it on the 28th of September.  Go Team Eastwood.

[First Image via On Location Vacation]

Also on the Radar:

Anna Karenina     Amour     Argo     Beasts of the Southern Wild     The Bourne Legacy     The Dark Knight Rises     Dark Shadows     Django Unchained     Gangster Squad     Great Expectations     The Great Gatsby     The Hobbit     Hope Springs     The Hunger Games     Hyde Park on the Hudson     Killing Them Softly     Lawless     Lincoln     Lola Versus     Lovelace     Low Life     Magic Mike     The Master     Les Misérables     Life of Pi     Moonrise Kingdom     The Paperboy     People Like Us     Prometheus     To Rome with Love     Ruby Sparks     Rust & Bone     Savages     Seeking a Friend for the End of the World     The Silver Linings Playbook     Smashed     The Surrogate     Trouble with the Curve     Won't Back Down 


The Avengers     The Amazing Spider-Man     Men in Black III