Hollywood legend Warren Beatty has revealed to RTÉ Entertainment that he has a few more film ideas on the back burner, as he makes his big screen return after over 15 years with Rules Don't Apply.
Beatty last appeared in a Dick Tracy TV movie in 2010 before taking a hiatus from Hollywood to focus on his family life with wife Annette Bening and their four children.
Returning to the big screen with Rules Don't Apply - in which he stars as the enigmatic Howard Hughes, as well as directing, producing and writing the project - fans will be glad to know that it might not be another decade and a half before we see more from the 80-year-old filmmaker.
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"I have a couple of things that are in the back of my mind now," Beatty told RTÉ Entertainment.
"I have learned not to say what they are, because if I say what they are, they'll say 'Oh, he's working on such and such' and then when I finally make it at the age of, oh 112, they'll say 'Well, it couldn't have been very good or he'd have already made it'."
Beatty joked that now was the right time to make his return to filmmaking because, "It has to do with my kids saying, 'Ok, enough of you'" but the star has been thinking about the project for quite some time and there were many elements he wanted to incorporate.
Watch our full interview with Warren Beatty and Lily Collins here:
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"It's an idea, a romantic comedy about two young people who came to Hollywood when I came to Hollywood in 1958, and the moral obstacles in this whole comical American Protestant sexual repression, the whole Protestant guilt that has made us the laughing stock of Europe so often, and I came from a state that was very bible-belt – Virginia – so I'd always had in my head that I wanted to do something like that," he said.
"The obstacle of American Puritanism to a love affair of two young kids would be very good, and I loved the idea of having an unusual crotchety old Howard Hughes, who has always struck me as quite comedic, to be a more specific obstacle to their relationship. I played around with the idea for a long time, but when I say I played around with it, it was in the back of my mind."
Rules Don't Apply hits cinemas on Friday, April 21.
