Clint Eastwood bemoans ‘era of remakes and franchises'
The four-time Oscar winner and veteran filmmaker has urged fellow filmmakers to come up with original ideas. The Juror #2 director said in an interview with Austrian newspaper Kurie: "I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like Casablanca in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea. We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I've shot sequels three times, but I haven't been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home.'
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