The Mule, one of Clint EastWood’s best movies, is streaming on Netflix right now, because nothing celebrates Father’s Day weekend like a Clint Eastwood movie. The 2018 film, written by Nick Schenk and directed by Eastwood (who also stars), is based on the true story of a 90-year-old drug mule. (The 2014 New York Times article, “The 90-year-old drug mule of the Sinaloa gang,” inspired the film.)
Earl Stone (Eastwood) loves flowers and loves his niece. He was a gentle old man, and not the kind of person you would expect to haul hundreds of kilograms of cocaine across the country in his pickup truck for the Mexican cartel. However, that is exactly what he does. I guess that’s why they say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. In the film, Earl is delivering cargo to Chicago, and most of the film’s time is spent on the road in the flat, idyllic Midwest countryside. But where was The Mule actually filmed?
Where was The Mule filmed?
The Mule was filmed in Georgia, specifically in the cities of Atlanta, Rome, and Augusta. Additional filming was done in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It was Eastwood’s first film to shoot in Georgia—he also used the state as a filming location for the films Richard Jewell and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. For The Mule, Eastwood spent two weeks filming at Sunshine Gardens on Lumpkin Park Drive—a daylily farm in Augusta, Georgia—which is featured in the film’s opening sequence.