Doing the right thing can be challenging. We want to think that we’d take the higher ground when faced with tragedy, but when push comes to shove, we tend to save ourselves when staring down the barrel of a grim fate. In Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 trailer, Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) must decide what kind of person he is when coming face-to-face with the possibility of being guilty of another man’s crime. The high ground suddenly feels insurmountable, and the choice between freedom and incarceration looms. What would you do?

Clint Eastwood directs Juror #2 from a script by Jonathan A. Abrams (Escape Plan, Destination Wedding). The intense thriller focuses on a family man named Justin Kemp, who struggles with a severe moral dilemma while serving as a juror in a high-profile trial. He could sway the jury with what he thinks he knows, potentially clearing an innocent man, but the information comes at a cost. Justin must decide if doing the right thing is worth destroying his life or if he should remain silent.

Juror #2 stars Nicholas Hoult (Renfield, Superman), Toni Collette (Raising Arizona, Hereditary), J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Red One), Chris Messina (Air, Based on a True Story), Gabriel Basso (The Night Agent), Zoey Deutch (The Politician, Zombieland: Double Tap), Cedric Yarbrough (Unfrosted), Leslie Bibb (Palm Royale, The Lost Husband), and Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys, Dark City), with Amy Aquino (Bosch), Adrienne C. Moore (Orange is the New Black).

Eastwood, Tim Moore, Jessica Meier, Adam Goodman, and Matt Skiena produced the film, which was executive produced by David M. Bernstein, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, and Jeremy Bell. Eastwood’s creative team includes such frequent collaborators as director of photography Yves Bélanger, production designer Ron Reiss; Oscar-winning editor Joel Cox (Unforgiven) and editor David Cox; BAFTA-nominated costume designer Deborah Hopper (Changeling); Mark Mancina created the original score.

Eastwood’s Juror #2 trailer presents a moral dilemma with lives hanging in the balance. If Justin remains silent, who he thinks could be an innocent man would be labeled a killer, his life snatched away with the clack of a gavel. However, if he reveals what he knows, Justin risks sabotaging a life he’s strived to achieve, leaving his family in the throes of judgment and uncertainty. What would you do in this situation?

Juror #2 will have a limited release from Warner Bros. Pictures in select theaters in North America on November 1, 2024.

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The Night Agent‘s Gabriel Basso could have a new assignment now that he’s in talks to join the cast of Clint Eastwood’s next and final film, Juror #2. Eastwood directs from a script by Jonathan Abrams (Destination Wedding, Escape Plan), with a story during a murder trial. When one of the jurors (Nicholas Hoult) seeks to protect the defendant without putting himself in jeopardy, he progressively realizes he may have caused the victim’s death in a careless driving accident. With the dark truth looming, the juror must decide to lie and reveal the truth about the case. Does he turn himself in? Does he let the defendant hang? Toni Collette will play the prosecutor in the complicated legal matter.

The 92-year-old filmmaker, who directed Gran Torino, Sully, The Bridges of Madison Country, and more, welcomes Hoult, Collette, Zoey Deutch, and Kiefer Sutherland to the cast, with Basso circling a mystery role.

Basso is lighting up screens thanks partly to his breakout role in Netflix’s The Night Agent. Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, The Night Agent is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low-level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, operating a phone that never rings — until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast-moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads to the Oval Office.

The Night Agent debuted as the third most-watched series on Netflix and is the streamer’s fifth most popular English-language series of all time.

Eastwood hopes to roll cameras by mid-June, making him 93 when filming kicks into high gear. For those of you keeping score, Eastwood will be one of the oldest filmmakers working in Hollywood when Juror # 2 makes Hoult’s character sweat through a crisis of conscience.

Have you watched Netflix’s The Night Agent? Is Basso a good fit for one of Eastwood’s gritty film projects? With a villainous role in Renny Harlin’s The Strangers remake and starring alongside Jessica Alba in Mouly Surya’s Trigger Warning thriller on the way, Basso’s future looks so bright he’ll need to wear shades. Let us know if you’re interested in Juror #2 in the comments below.

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