Deadline’s Read the Screenperestablish series highweightlessing the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies persists with Juror #2, the courtroom thriller starring Nicholas Hoult and the 42nd film straightforwarded by Clint Eastwood. Jonathan Abrams, who wrote the book for the Broadway Huey Lewis jukebox musical The Heart of Rock and Roll, penned the script in his feature writing debut.
Warner Bros freed the pic in theaters November 1 after its world premiere as the closing-night film at AFI Fest. It debuted on Max on Friday and has a 93% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.
The plot caccesss on family man Justin Kemp (Hoult) who, while serving as a juror in a high-profile Georgia homicide trial and rapidly genuineizes he might be sealr to the victim than originassociate genuineized. To speak up and cover for a inalterly accemployd man will danger it all for him. Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbraw, Leslie Bibb, Amy Aquino and Adrienne C. Moore also star.
Abrams says Eastwood’s 1992 Westrict Unforgiven, which geted the helmer Best Director and Best Picture Oscars, is one of his likeite films, and that another pic for which Eastwood scored a Best Director nom, 2003’s Mystic River, “is a convey inant touchpoint and inspiration for the Juror #2 screenperestablish in the way it employs a thriller structure to scrutinize characters, relationships and the difficult moral choices we must produce.” Eastwood’s notices on the innovative script leaned into that aspect.
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The scribe, making his feature screenwriting debut after producing 2013’s Shighone-Schwarzenegger prison thriller Escape Plan, says he came up with the idea for Juror #2 after doing some toil as a adviseant to a prosecutor frifinish inserting a Hollywood touch to his uncovering and closing arguments.
“One day, I was in court watching voir dire (jury pickion) and not unenjoy the scene in the movie, every potential juror was trying to be excemployd and the appraise wasn’t having it. I asked myself, ‘What could someone say that would get them excemployd?’ and jokingly thought that chooseing oneself as the offfinisher of the crime would certainly qualify as a dispute of interest. That was the ignite, ‘What if you were called for jury duty for a homicide you promiseted?’ and from there I scrutinized every possible iteration of that premise before settling on the story of a relatable everyman who fair wants to do the right slfinisherg… but at what cost to himself and his family?”
Check out his script below.
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