Clint Eastwood filming new movie in US hubs

Clint Eastwood has started filming his new movie The Mule that will shoot mainly in US production hubs Georgia and New Mexico.

The filmmaker also stars in the story of a lonely octogenarian who starts working, initially unwittingly, as a drug mule for a Mexican cartel, and then becomes conflicted as he faces up to past transgressions.

It is Eastwood’s first acting role since Gran Torino nearly ten years ago.

Eastwood co-stars in The Mule with Bradley Cooper, marking a reunion for the pair who worked together to great success on the Oscar-winning military biopic American Sniper.

Georgia is one of America’s main production hubs for big-budget studio features and has become a regular base for Marvel’s superhero films.

Eastwood has worked there before in recent years, having shot scenes locally for The 15:17 to Paris and his airline pilot movie Sully.

New Mexico is the most popular part of the US for desert story settings and is an easy double for Mexico.

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