It’s simple to suppose that The Eastwood Rule is named in honor of the much-decorated actor/director, however it’s in point of fact a rebuke from his colleagues in the DGA. In 1976, after 20 years as an actor most renowned for his roles as a good-looking, lanky, and taciturn quick-draw artist in Westerns on TV and the big display screen, Clint Eastwood used to be starring in “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” The director of the picture, Philip Kaufman, was once taking an overly deliberate method to casting and rehearsals, which was striking the movie at the back of agenda. Eastwood and Kaufman clashed, badly.
According to Patrick McGilligan’s biography “Clint: The Life and Legend“: “Kaufman’s methodical pace was once anathema to him. The introspective Kaufman made Clint nervous, pacing around in his leather-based cowboy hat like Sergio Leone, studiously weighing his choices and framing his photographs.”
After over a month of clashes between Eastwood and Kaufman, the actor was once able to leverage his clout as the lead actor and a co-producer to have Kaufman got rid of from the venture, taking over the director’s obligations himself, as described in “Clint: The Life and Legend.” Good for Eastwood, maybe, however the DGA was once now not impressed, fining the new director $60,000 (in step with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that’s about $300,000 in 2022) and adopting a new clause of their contracts that stipulated enforcing harsher fines and revoking a director’s membership in the guild if a producer violated the rule a second time by firing and in my view taking on as director.
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