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Eastwood nabs FBI boss

Clint Eastwood, who most recently directed the locally-shot 'Invictus', is readying himself to make a biographical feature film about controversial FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment will be helping Eastwood, and 'Milk' screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has been writing the script.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Hoover was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935 and turned it into an efficient crimefighting organisation. He remained its director until his death in 1972, but his sculpted persona was already coming apart at the seams; he employed the FBI to harass political activists and used illegal methods to make secret files on leaders. Many biographies also assert the man was a closeted homosexual and cross-dresser."

The project was once set up at Universal, but it is most likely to go through Warner Bros, where Eastwood and his Malpaso company are based. Malpaso's Robert Lorenz will also be helping Eastwood and Grazer in the producer's chair.

Interesting fact is that "Warner hired Hoover to act as a consultant on its 1959 movie 'The FBI Story' and on the ABC spinoff series 'The F.B.I.'," the publication wrote.

Eastwood previously worked with Imagine in 2008 on the 1920s-set Angelina Jolie drama 'The Changeling'.