He’s been subtly blacklisted for decades for some sin or another against wokeness/political correctness.
He’s probably looking to start landing profitable roles again. The mortgages on his mansion(s) is not going to pay itself.
“The mortgages on his mansion(s) is not going to pay itself.”
Well, he can let his horse-face wife pick up the slack. Doesn’t she have some fancy shmancy ‘job’ they keep reminding us about??
Neither. He's simply well beyond his "past use" date. He's old, obsolete, and irrelevant. His target audience no longer goes to paying theaters. We have home theaters and watch what we want, and it doesn't include pretentious, pompous fossils like Richard "Gerbil" Gere.
He has spoken out on behalf of Tibet and thereby PO'ed the CCP. So he is persona non grata in China and his movies too.