Clint Eastwood Confirms to Movieline: Next Project is Dustin Lance Black-Penned J. Edgar Hoover Biopic

Movieline's intrepid video correspondent Carly Steel was front and center at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse last night for annual fundraiser Backstage at the Geffen, where, undeterred by his legendary ball-retracting glare, she cornered Clint Eastwood. She proceeded to grill the Hollywood elder statesman on the status of the Dustin Lance Black-penned J. Edgar Hoover bio he's recently been linked to, which he confirmed to Movieline was a go. But not before work was done on his current project, Hereafter -- his second outing in a row with Matt Damon, in which you learned here first the Invictus star plays a shy factory worker trying to suppress his ability to see ghosts. Click on for the video.