I would be happy if Clint just found a script and directed the western, maybe playing the part of an old geezer, too. I mean, durn, the man is in his 80's. Let somebody else be the action hero. At least Clint would probably make a GOOD western.
Eastwood even in a wheelchair is more believable as a western star or any action star than Depp is.
Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford can both still produce and direct great movies, including westerns. There are not too many other directors or actors like them around. The rest of Hollyweird is just, well, very different from both of them.
I have not seen Redford's last one yet (The Company You Keep). It has received mixed but generally favorable reviews. Redford seems to do his best work when he is in a Western setting. I doubt it will compare to his movie The Horse Whisperer. This movie came out the same year as Titanic and in my opinion was a much better movie than Titanic. It was Redford's best movie as director and in my opinion his best performance as an actor ( I know that he and Newman did some pretty good stuff earlier in his career but nothing quite as good as The Horse Whisperer.).
In the western genre, it is difficult to top Eastwood's Unforgiven, which in my opinion is the best western ever made. It is loaded with star power having four leading men including, Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, and Morgan Freeman, and a tremendous supporting cast. Everything about Unforgiven is first rate from the writing and directing to the acting and costumes. It was Eastwood's Gone With the Wind, but of course on a much smaller scale.
Also the Cohen Brothers are still making some high quality movies, but not really westerns. No Country for Old Men, while close in some ways, was not really a western, even if it was set in southwest Texas. In fact on one level it was about the end of the western era, and the end of the era of men like the character played by Tommy lee Jones.
Good movies are still being made, but you have to look for them. Sloppy, gaudy, and poorly made movies are the norm and there are so many of them it makes finding the goods ones a real chore.
