Justin Timberlake is set to play Clint Eastwood's pal as the movie veteran comes out of acting retirement for upcoming baseball film Trouble with the Curve.
The Dirty Harry legend will star as an ageing baseball scout who is losing his vision, and Timberlake has been cast as his friend Johnny Flanagan, a former pitcher who works as a talent-spotter for the New York Yankees.
According to Variety.com, the singer-turned-actor will be a potential love interest for Eastwood's onscreen daughter, to be played by Amy Adams.
The sports movie will be the first film Eastwood has starred in but not directed since the 1993 thriller In the Line of Fire.
Eastwood previously vowed to bow out of the spotlight so he could concentrate on moviemaking - unless the perfect script came along.
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