Eastwood to Voice Dirty Harry in Game

Just a few days after sweeping almost all of the important Oscar categories (re: the ones I care about) -- with the exception of Best Actor -- Clint Eastwood's production company announced that he would voice Dirty Harry Callahan for the Dirty Harry video game, according to this Variety story.

The game will include characters and settings from the five-film franchise, which began with "Dirty Harry" in 1971 and ended with "The Dead Pool" in 1988. But the storyline will be original.

It's funny that this comes up now (but actually it makes a lot of sense considering the publicity Eastwood is getting). My writing partner, his girlfriend, and I were discussing the merits of Eastwood, and how in his later years, he's made the types of films that convey a certain gritty reality (as real as the movies can portray that) with The Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby (which I think is The Unforgiven for boxing),

Now, I'm anxious to see if he can translate the story telling from his later film making years into a realistic, morality tale where there are no heroes and villains.