The very first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s next film, The Mule, has just landed online. Joining Eastwood in the film, which he also directs, are the likes of Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest, Andy Garcia, Alison Eastwood, Taissa Farmiga, Ignacio Serricchio, Loren Dean, and Eugene Cordero. Watch The Mule trailer below.
The Mule trailer: Clint Eastwood directs and stars
In the film, Eastwood plays a 90-year-old horticulturist and WWII veteran who is caught transporting $3 million worth of cocaine through Michigan for a Mexican drug cartel.
The full, official synopsis is as follows:
Clint Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does well—so well, in fact, that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl is assigned a handler. But he isn’t the only one keeping tabs on Earl; the mysterious new drug mule has also hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates. And even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl’s past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it’s uncertain if he’ll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel’s enforcers, catch up to him.
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Eastwood has got this one made really rather quickly. It will be released in January despite the fact that it only started shooting in the summer. US film fans will get the movie a little earlier; it’s due out there smack in the middle of awards season on December 14th.
We’re hearing all sorts of positive word of mouth on this one already.
Watch The Mule trailer below.
