It was films such as this that likely led the director to branch out into telling true stories through film such as American Sniper, Sully, The 15:17 To Paris and The Mule.
Since the start of the century, Clint Eastwood started helming more realistic movies that could believably be “true stories” but were actually fiction.
Space Cowboys, Mystic River or Million Dollar Baby could convince some of being actual stories.
He has also moved into directing more exclusively.