Clint Eastwood is a Triple Threat in Upcoming Adventure Film, Cry Macho

Actor and director Clint Eastwood has chosen his next directorial effort.

According to Variety, Eastwood will both direct and star in a film entitled Cry Macho. Based on the novel by N. Richard Nash, Nick Schneck is penning the screenplay while Eastwood, Tim Moore, Al Rudder and Jessica Mier all serve as producers. The project is set up at Warner Bros.

The project tells the story of an elderly horse-trainer who comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme by way of kidnapping a child in Mexico City and bringing the kid to his father, who is also the trainer’s former boss.

Cry Macho has gone through numerous iterations over the years. Eastwood had planned to direct and star in it back in the 1980s but opted to do The Dead Pool instead. More recently, Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Brad Furman were lined up to do a version of Cry Macho in 2011 that never materialized.

Clint Eastwood began his career as an actor, garnering an iconic stature for his performances as The Man With No Name in Westerns like The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. In the decades since, he’s headlined and directed a wide array of acclaimed dramas, including two Best Picture winners, Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby.