WithJuror #2finding its audience on streaming, now is a great time to watch (or rewatch)Clint Eastwood’s final Western.Unforgiven, the 1992 film that won Eastwood Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards, is coming to Prime Video.Unforgivenwill debut on the streaming service on July 11, 2025.
Written byDavid Webb Peoples(Blade Runner,12 Monkeys), the script forUnforgivenoriginated in the 1970s. It was originally optioned byFrancis Ford Coppola, who couldn’t get the film financed, before it came to Eastwood. He decided to make it his final statement on the Western, a genre that had kicked off and defined his career. Eastwood dedicated the film to “Sergio and Don” –Sergio LeoneandDon Siegel, who directed Eastwood in several of his iconic roles and mentored him in the art of directing. Produced on a budget of $14.4 million USD and shot largely in Alberta, Canada, the film was a critical and financial success, making $159.2 million and winning four Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (forGene Hackman), and Best Film Editing (forJoel Cox).
What Is ‘Unforgiven’ About?
Eastwood stars inUnforgivenas William Munny, once a feared gunfighter and now a struggling, widowed farmer. When a group of prostitutes led by Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher) place a bounty on a cowboy who mutilated one of them, Munny reluctantly comes out of retirement, bringing his old comrade Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and wannabe gunslinger The Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) with him. He soon finds that the cowboys are under the protection of ruthless sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Hackman), who will go to any length to uphold the law in his town. The film also starsRichard Harrisas English Bob, another gunfighter seeking the bounty, andSaul Rubinekas his biographer. There are no heroes or villains inUnforgiven; the act of killing a man, even an evil one, is depicted not as heroism, but “taking away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.” Munny is no romantic hero, but a killer of women and children, little better than the sadistic cowards he’s hunting.
Unforgivenwasremade in 2013, and moves the action to the last days of feudal Japan, whereKen Watanabeplays Jubei Kamata, an infamous ex-samurai who comes out of retirement to avenge an attack on a prostitute.Unforgivenwill stream on Prime Video starting June 17, 2025. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Unforgiven
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The “Schofield Kid.”
