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The streets of Hollywood are littered with the husks of broken dreams and lost potential. Often being born to fame guarantees nothing more than life under a microscope. Sometimes however, great careers emerge from the specter of public scrutiny. Alison Eastwood is preparing to follow in her famous father’s footsteps by helming the upcoming Rails and Ties.
The project, spotted by father Clint’s Malpaso Prods is the first feature length project by Alison as well as screenwriter Micky Levy. The flick follows the physical and emotional ties that bind a railway engineer and his wife to a 9 year old boy following the suicidal death of the child’s depressed mother; who parked her car with her son inside, on railroad tracks and waited for the train to bear down on them. Following the crash, the mother is killed, but the child survives and an unlikely bond is formed between the survivors. Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden
are reportedly in negotiations to play the couple in the film which will begin production in LA in early 2007.
The Eastwoods are not the first father-daughter tag team to hit Hollywood. Sofia Coppola followed a virtually identical path as Alison now pursues, following her famous father into the industry first as an actress and then later as a director of such films as the Oscar winning Lost in Translation and this years Marie Antoinette. Both Eastwood and Coppola starred in nearly 2 dozen films in their careers. Malpaso’s Rob Lorenz is producing along with Peer Oppenheimer and Barrett Stuart for Warner Independent Pictures . The film is slated for a late 2007 release date.
