RELATED: Clint Eastwood-Helmed Richard Jewell Biopic Heads to Warner Bros. Rockwell, whose credits also include Vice, Fosse/Verdon, The Best of Enemies, F Is for Family, Blaze, and the upcoming Jojo Rabbit, will play the attorney who defends Jewell after he is wrongly accused.
Variety is reporting that Oscar winner Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) is in final talks to star in The Ballad of Richard Jewel, Clint Eastwood’s upcoming biopic based on the real-life security guard.
The project has been in development for many years with Jonah Hill previously attached to play Jewell.
Warner Bros. has been almost the exclusive home to Eastwood’s filmography as both an actor and a director.