In a lengthy interview with Coming Soon, cinema villain Tony Scott spilled about all the projects he has in the pipeline. We’re just stunned he’s survived “Domino”- credit where credit’s due, if someone wanted to make the very last movie humanity would produce, “Domino” would be the sad, miserable end before the apocalypse. Some feel this makes that movie worth recommending. They are wrong. We commend Scott for not following that movie with an unhinged naked, drug-fueled sojourn into the woods where he’d live in a cave with M Night Shyamalan post-“Lady In The Water” to trade stories about the goblins in their heads. We do wish he followed through on the medium-destroying power of “Domino” and ceased to make another movie again, but the stubborn ass just won’t listen.
Surprisingly, out of all his films, Scott’s most interested in franchising “The Hunger.” His first film (maybe his best?) is a woozy, sexually provocative vampire tale that glides on its dream-logic and MTV-inspired edits- sometimes you just fucking know, don’t you? Says Scott, “I’m not going to tell you how we’re doing it, but I’m controlling it and it’s gone to the next level. It’s not a reinvention or reinterpretation, it starts in New York and it ends up in Sao Paulo, so it’s a very different movie, but it springboards off the original. We’re writing it right now and we’ve got a great writer, Erin Wilson.” His comments suggest a movie using the title and little else, since the original effort is a fairly small affair, but this is the first we’ve heard of this project — could a studio really be interested in such a niche title? The again, Tony Scott swings wide and no long executes niche at all.
Scott’s also hammering away at his planned redo of “The Warriors.” Discussing what sounds like a series of “Warriors” films that don’t exist (unless he’s remaking “1990: The Bronx Warriors,” which we’d be… semi-ok with), he says, “The original, they don’t stand up very well. They’re great cult movies, but that was the ’70s, and I’m doing it around the gang culture in L.A., which is a very fast disappearing culture.” Continuing to discuss his dubious association with gangs, he says, “They’re homogenizing all the looks from the MS-13s to the 18th Streets, the Crips, the Bloods, and I met with all the gang members, and they all said, ‘If you get this movie on’–because ‘The Warriors’ is their favorite movie–‘We’ll all stand on the Vincent Thomas Bridge, 100,000 gang members for the beginning of the movie and we’ll sign a treaty and we’ll be there.'” Yes, that sounds like a very safe marriage free from potential disaster.
Scott didn’t comment on his rumored next film, another collaboration with Denzel Washington, “Unstoppable,” and he refused to address the rumors surrounding FOX’s “Alien” remake (which may or may not be directed by futuristic commercial director Carl Erik Rinsch). He did discuss an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Hell’s Angels” with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (“Traffic”) onboard, as well as the few projects he has lined up for his Scott Free Productions that he may or may not tackle, but all of which seem not very far in development. [Coming Soon]
