Clint Eastwood is in the process of developing a new film, against the rumors that he was bound to retire from filmmaking. Having recently celebrated his 95th birthday on May 31st, Eastwood is a venerable institution of Hollywood. 70 years ago Eastwood was a working actor as an prominent extra and bit player in B-movie monster films such as Revenge Of The Creature and Tarantula. Achieving notoriety and fame as the star of the hit Western tv series Rawhide in the tail end of the 1950s and early 1960s, Eastwood achieved major success as an international film star through his work on Italian westerns (The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly), setting up a decades long career as one of America’s preeminent movie stars. Eastwood ventured into film directing proper early on. His debut Play Misty For Me released in 1971. Since then, Eastwood has directed a total of 40 feature films.

Previous speculations emerged that his latest film, the legal thriller Juror #2 was set to be his last work as a director, amid the “less distinguished treatment” that the project received from parent company Warner Bros. Juror #2  had received a noticeably reduced distribution plan than was the norm for much of Eastwood’s career in mainstream Hollywood, with less than 50 theaters receiving the film.  Reportedly, Warner Bros. had issue with the performance of Eastwood’s previous film, the western Cry Macho. Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav had allegedly been reported to be confused on why that film was made, although Eastwood has had a 50-year long working relationship with Warner Bros, who have been the distributors for both of Eastwood’s Best Picture winning films, Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. In recent years, the studio had also distributed a trio of box office hits from Eastwood: American Sniper, Sully, and The Mule. The former of which garnered Oscar Nominations, as did Eastwood’s Richard Jewell. Although Juror #2 had a dicey release pattern, Eastwood is set to work with Warner Bros. again as he develops this new project. With no sign of slowing down his creativity, Eastwood is confident that directing need not be a young man’s game, and that skill and deftness can improve with time for some filmmakers.