Clint Eastwood has decided on his next directing project. According to The Hollywood Reporter it’s a biopic of the first FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

THR says Eastwood is teaming with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment. The script is by Milk writer, Dustin Lance Black.

Hoover was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935. He is credited with turning it into a large, efficient crime-fighting organization and remained its director until his death in 1972. But he has become a controversial figure. Hoover is said to have used the FBI to harass political activists and dissenters, to have amassed secret files of sensitive information on leaders, and to have collected evidence employing illegal methods. Many also assert that he was a closeted homosexual and cross-dresser.

As the project is not yet in the casting stage, there is not word on who will take on the lead role. In the past, those who have played Hoover include Bob Hoskins in Oliver Stone’s Nixon (1995) and Billy Crudup in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies (2009).

Eastwood is currently in post on the drama Hereafter, starring Matt Damon and Cecile de France.