Forget His Oscars, Clint Eastwood Says Only His Plane Crash Story Is Worth a Biopic

Clint Eastwood is one of those iconic movie figures who have seen Hollywood going from one era to another, witnessing the life and career of some of the best directors and actors in history.

However, all of this might have become a thing way too ordinary for Eastwood who seemingly has no idea why would anyone would make a movie about him anyway.

With some other filmmakers probably getting source material from all sorts of interviews that Eastwood did throughout years, the director barely considers one scary accident he experienced for a possible biopic — and that has nothing to do with cinema whatsoever.

Clint Eastwood Thinks Only His Plane Crash Story Deserved to Become His Biopic

Despite Eastwood’s career being something that even successful movie directors are still jealous of, he doesn’t really think this would be interesting enough for the audiences.

Many have long tried to figure out which period of his life the director thinks is the best fit for a movie’s plot, though the answer was short and pretty unsatisfying.

“There’s nothing in my life”, Eastwood revealed in one of his interviews (shared by Far Out Magazine).

This wasn’t what everyone expected to hear though, so Eastwood was eventually pushed to come up with something more original and specific — which, again, might not be what his fans really wanted to hear.

“I once rode a plane into the ocean in Northern California when I was 21 years old, as a passenger. It was a military plane, but I was a passenger, and that was a little story that was kind of… hectic. Because for a 21 year old, you think, ‘This is my ending, this is my demise, and I’m just now turning 21”, the director added.

Clint Eastwood Plans to Work Until He’s “Truly Senile”

The director’s name has been long surrounded by rumours about his possible decision to quit the industry after releasing his 2024 thriller Juror No. 2, though Eastwood seems more than eager to make more movies after turning 95 back in May.

As Eastwood recently told Austrian newspaper Kurier (shared by Reuters), he isn’t yet ready to go back home and stay away from everything new he can learn while continuing to direct.

“As an actor, I was still under contract with a studio, was in the old system, and thus forced to learn something new every year. And that's why I'll work as long as I can still learn something, or until I'm truly senile”, Eastwood revealed.