Ayyyy! The first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s film adaptation of the long-running Broadway hit “Jersey Boys” has finally dropped, and it looks very promising.
John Lloyd Young reprises his stage role as singing legend Frank Valli in this jukebox musical about doo-wop sensations The Four Seasons, also featuring Christopher Walken as a gangster. It opens on June 20.
“Jersey Boys” could be Eastwood’s first big box-office success since “Grand Torino’’ six years ago — his three subsequent films as a director (“Invictus,” “Hereafter” and “J. Edgar”) all under-performed.
It’s not the first Broadway musical transfer that Eastwood has been involved in, though it’s been several decades. Just for fun, here’s a clip of Clint singing Lerner and Loewe’s “I Talk to the Trees” from Joshua Logan’s “Paint Your Wagon” (1969):