'J. Edgar' Stills: Leonardo DiCaprio Channels The FBI Chief (PHOTOS)

As the release date draws nearer, Warner Bros. is beginning to reveal more and more from a film about a man who traded in secrecy.

A whole new batch of still images from the Clint Eastwood-directed "J. Edgar" have hit the web, highlighting, above all else, the incredible transformation of the film's star, Leonardo DiCaprio. Tracing the long career of FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover, we're treated to a youthful, spry and ambitious looking Leo, on down the line to the old, embittered and bloated man with more enemies than history should tolerate.

We also catch some more glimpses of Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson, Hoover's deputy and rumored lover, and a closer look at Judi Dench, as J. Edgar's mother.

The film opens in limited release on November 9th, and hits theaters full throttle on the 11th. Click here to see a trailer.

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Comments

[Mulebone]

03:22 PM on 10/30/2011

I've gotta tip my hat to Eastwood. When I first read about him picking DiCaprio for the role I said, "Ohmygod! Eastwood is ready for the home. Somebody walk him off the set before he chokes on his prune juice."

But ...

After seeing the trailer I said, "My God! That's Hoover!"

[Juliawerck]

11:06 PM on 10/29/2011

This film looks very good. Clint Eastwood's films are so good and keep getting better.

[raffie]

09:23 PM on 10/29/2011

If Eastwood is directing, tickets I'm buying___he needs an Academy Award named for him and a category for it --- give him the 'Eastwood Lifetime Achievement Award'

[freddsky]

07:42 PM on 10/29/2011

I only hope that Eastwood pulls no punches, unlike the way Oliver Stone was surprisingly compassionate to conservabrat Georgie Jr. in "W." The foul Hoover deserves every bit of his beastliness to be laid out for all to sneer at. Let the brilliant di Caprio try as he will to make the despot "sympathetic," we'll see. It's for certain that Leo would look more fetching in a twinset and pearls than J. Edgar ever did.

[La Elle]

02:56 PM on 10/28/2011

Dayum. It's Rush Limbaugh's clone!

[dztmseh70]

01:05 PM on 10/28/2011

Looks like Leonardo will be great in this film. Hoover was a paranoid, power crazed, strange little man. Funny how individuals with these characteristics somehow get into positions of power.

[raffie]

09:28 PM on 10/29/2011

Leonardo always came off and not tough enough in appearance that never impressed me, or so I thought___I can attest to the fact that he has exceeded any acting challenge to which he is presented... to me, he is Howard Hughes (George C. Scott became Patton --- not typecast but that individual we perceived him to be in real life) ---Leo will also be Hoover to me, for sure!

[dztmseh70]

09:49 PM on 10/29/2011

I know what you mean. He doesn't exactly fit in the role of a tough guy, however, I liked him in The Departed.

[waypd]

10:30 AM on 10/28/2011

With Clint directing this is going to be the bomb!

[rk808]

06:46 AM on 10/28/2011

any cross-dressing scenes? (G)

[Jennifer Lucia]

01:24 AM on 10/28/2011

I love Leo, so I hope the movie is good.

[spikemk]

01:10 AM on 10/28/2011

Typical Hollywood crap!!!

[themightyabealrd]

11:47 PM on 10/27/2011

I hope the film covers some of Hoover's worst excesses, like the COINTELPRO business. The Feebs spied on average American citizens whose only crime was opposing the Vietnam war. They spent taxpayer dollars building files on people like my late mother, who never so much as jaywalked. But she publically spoke out against practices like dropping napalm on children....and J.Edgar's thought police saw this as evidence of UnAmerican sympathies. My parents cracked open a bottle of champagne when the old closet queen died...can't say as I fault them for doing so.

[SimonBao]

07:51 AM on 10/28/2011

As I understand it, the film is a study of Hoover's character, and so the focus is not on his career, or his crimes. (And yes, much of what Hoover did was criminal.)

So you shouldn't expect or even ask a character study to also be some kind of expose.

[pri150]

10:45 PM on 10/27/2011

Liberal no good

[strato46]

12:16 AM on 10/28/2011

"Blah Blah Blah....Liberal" Righties, This kind of ignorance gets really old. Not everyone who disagrees with you Is a "liberal". More than just "liberals" think the right wing agenda is out to lunch. Better learn to accept it.

[dztmseh70]

01:02 PM on 10/28/2011

Agree. The two words that the right have made "dirty words" and have over used and abused are LIBERALS AND SOCIALISTS. "Liberals, Socialists, Oh My, Oh My!!! Anyone who thinks that the inequality in this country has to change, is branded a Liiberal and Socialist Ridiculous. However I am a liberal and not afraid to say so.

[La Elle]

02:58 PM on 10/28/2011

Me Tarzan! Tarzan republican!

[gv007]

08:46 PM on 10/27/2011

The only guy that kept the Kennedy,s in check. Now thats scary.

[gv007]

08:39 PM on 10/27/2011

Jack Nicholson would have been great in this movie.

[deewhy1939]

07:39 PM on 10/27/2011

I lived through much of the Hoover FBI period.so I don't know if I could watch this film and I expect it to be good. The stress he and his FBI placed on the citizens of this country was unbearable. All of the adults seem to always be wondering when the knock of the door would come. Hoover kept files on any citizens he felt like--wrong doing didn't enter into the equation. Between him and Mc Carthy you always had a feeling that Big Brother was watching you. There was a feeling of relif thoughout the country when he died.

[Rozanna]

04:22 AM on 10/28/2011

I know. It was like "Thank god he's finally dead." He had a real stranglehold on the country.