Gene Hackman : You gotta do one last film!

You gotta do one last film!

Dear Mr. Hackman,

I am a young, 27 year old actor. You are an inspiration to me and many of the young actors today. As far as I'm concerned you're the best film actor I've ever seen and your films and characters inspire me to be a better person, not just a better actor ( which I have a hard time believing I'll ever be as good as you).

I just wanted to let you know you are greatly missed and are continuing to affect the younger generations with your gift.

Act again! Please! We need you!

James Clayton

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u are right. he is great!
its a shame he dont get any offers since 2004.
i cant belive this.
he is one of the 10-20 best actors alife

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A friend of mine...who works in film industry told me,that he will be working on a movie staring in Aug.. And its with Gene hackman and Tommy Lee Jones...I hope he's telling me the truth.

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its a shame he dont get any offers since 2004.

I am sure Hackman still receives offers, but I think it's more that he himself decided to retire. A shame, cause like you said, he really is one of the best actors around. It would really a shame if his final film is Welcome to Mooseport

Don't you know people write songs about girls like you?

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Refer to my 'perfect last role' thread. It's a great role!

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Come on, guys, this actor is old and obviously decided not to act anymore for his reasons. Perhaps health-related.

Sure, there are the actors who are still acting or directing, but not everyone at that age can do it.

I didn't like Sean Connery's last film, but it didn't negate all of his previous work that matter to me.

My dad is 2 years younger and has been in poor health after he had worked for decades. Had he wanted to go back to work as a government contractor after he retired, he wouldn't be able to. He is too ill when he was healthy up to age 71.

Some of you seem to act like folks in their 70s and 80s still can work as if they were still 30. Some can, but the others can't. They are no longer 30, or 40, or 50, or 60 while they can still work. It's called getting old and not being able to keep up. That's the problem with Hollywood trying to unrealistically project eternal youth, manliness, beauty, and no injuries from brutal fights in movies.

Pacino and De Nero will follow suit in the near future. I'll be sad when they can't or decide not to act anymore, but no one is or can be humanly immortal.

Then, you will need to let go of them at that point.

Just watch their previous movies and marvel at them... and smile. You will still honor them in that way.

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Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.

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I agree with you, though I must say, at least Hackman only had one *beep* role in his latter years we want to forget. Remember one of his best performances (Royal) came only a few years before.

Pacino and De Niro have both made multiple embarrassingly bad films in the last decade. Its truly depressing considering the brilliant careers they had. I mean, after so many excellent movies: including two films in the godfather II and heat which they both were *beep* RIGHTEOUS KILL is what we finally get to see them together in on screen?

Gene Hackman is a brilliant actor and has always struck me as a wonderful man as well. His role selection has been near flawless, mooseport aside.

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"Its too bad she won't live........but then again who does?"

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That's a great way to put it. Moreover, as bad as Mooseport is, at least it wasn't embarrassingly bad. I cringe every time I see DeNiro on the bill these days.

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Count me among those who would love to see him do one last film.

I understand that he wants to retire and it's his choice.

Still, I am being selfish and want him to to one final great role.

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It's not health related. He just got sick of the Hollywood machine and all the BS that comes along with acting. He has stated that he still loves to act but he finds the industry itself stressful. Yes, he is 81 years old, but he still has it all together if the GQ article from June that I read is any indication. He writes historical fiction these days (and gets pretty good reviews). I still hope he will make a comeback (and anyone who loves great acting should as well), but from what I've read from him, it's up in the air at this point. I don't think he's totally ruled it out but it would probably have to be a pretty special role/situation to bring him back.

Let us take the risks of peace upon our lives, not impose the risks of war upon the world.

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I think he said a few years ago on Larry King or some other show that he didn't see himself doing another film.

I think "Runaway Jury" was the last good film he did.

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I, too, am waiting hopefully for another film starring Mr. Hackman. I've been amazed by and entertained by him for over forty years. He's one of the few actors we have whose presence is sufficient to guarantee good entertainment.

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Well, how about doing a small indie film or in Europe? Hollywood is not the only place you can do what you love, you know! Plus it will most likely be done in a short time and not too physically demanding, so I'm sure he can pull it off. Come on Gene, one last good role please! :)

-Goodnight, mother of six!
-Goodnight, father of two!

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Give him a break, retired means retired.

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Indeed, If you can't retire when you're 80 then when can you retire? He's been working long enough. Time to live life 100% when you're getting so old since you might not have that long left.

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hackman is one of the best. converation and french connection are two of the best movies i have ever seen. they also include two of the best performances i have ever seen.

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i agree. gene hackman is an actors actor. and i would really love to see him give us one last great acting performance.

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For me, this wish for just one more brought to mind
so many of the great performances he gave over his long career
and how much I miss watching him in great movies.
I remember the day the press announced that he was retiring
from acting. It made me feel like the day my favorite neighbor
moved away. I miss that Gene Hackman in movies these days.

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Everyone cheer up--he is not listed as being the narrator in the Martin
Scorsese film "Wolf of Wall Street". Wahooo!

Better than nothing!

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absolutely agree! and it needs to be either a very serious drama or something hilarious.

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https://www.yahoo.com/movies/bp/the-big-questions-for-actor-turned-nov elist-gene-hackman-001314382.html

February 2014

The final inevitable question: Can we hold on any hope of seeing you on the screen again?

Only in reruns.

That's it?

Yeah, that's it. I'm at a place where I feel very good about not having to work all night.


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Gene Hackman was originally going to play a part in Sean Penn's "The Indian Runner" that went to Charles Bronson. If Penn ever casts him in one of his movies, i think he will come out of retirement. The parts in his movies are just so good. Look what he did to Charles Bronson in the film and for Hal Holbrook in his Academy Award nominated part in "Into The Wild".

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He probably doesn't like how Hollywood works now and thinks it best to leave his acting legacy as is, like Sean Connery did.

I do wish he did another movie though, there are plenty of directors he could collaborate with.

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While Welcome to Mooseport was a cute movie, having it be the final credit for someone like Hackman just doesn't seem right.

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There is something so genuine with his acting

he may have quit for good, but we can always wish

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I think one way to coax him out of retirement would be to option one of his novels
for a movie. Offer him a small part in the film and I bet he would do it!
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