Tony scott

Born in North Shields (Northumberland), a farming town in the north of England, on June 21, 1944, Anthony DL Scott was the son of Elizabeth Scott, an actress with a short career, who in the 40s took part in some title such as The Case of the Woman scared _ He became interested in cinema thanks to his brother Ridley, who recruited Tony when he was 16 to star in Boy and Bicycle., his short film debut. Tony wanted to become a painter, although he was always following in his brother’s footsteps, and studied like him at the Royal College of Art in London. When he finished he decided to shoot documentaries, but his brother Ridley convinced him to help him by making commercials. “I knew that he wanted to make documentaries, but I asked him not to go to the BBC, that he stay with me. Since I knew that he was passionate about cars, I told him to come work with me, and in a year he would have a Ferrari. He accepted delighted ”. This is how he ended up directing hundreds of advertisements for the company RSA ( Ridley Scott Associates). He ended up being temporarily in charge of the entire company, when his sister began to be absent for long periods of time when he began to directThe Duelists , Alien, the Eighth Passenger, and Blade Runner . One day, his brother suggested that they play toss or toss which of the two of them would direct the adaptation of L’Auteur de Beltraffio , a story by Henry James , for a French television series.

In 1980, the family suffered a serious setback when Frank, another brother, died. Soon after, Tony receives tempting offers from Hollywood, which at that time was signing many English advertising directors, such as Alan Parker , Adrian Lyne , Hugh Hudson and Ridley himself. MGM offers him to lead a vampire story, The Hunger , with David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, where young Tony demonstrated his visual imagination. Curiously, although it has become a cult film over time, at the time it did not have much of an impact, and Tony had to return to commercials, because they did not sign him again to direct more films for three years. It was then that he received the call from two guys who declared themselves passionate about The Craving , the producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. They had seen an advert for Tony’s cars, where a car competes against a fighter jet, and had come to the conclusion that the British car was ideal for taking Top Gun to the movies., the project they had in hand. The adventures of a young man who received training at a fighter pilot school became a mass phenomenon, and ended up consecrating the then-rising Tom Cruise as an idol for adolescents. Simpson and Bruckheimer re-signed him for Super Detective in Hollywood II , which despite starting from a very uninspired script, was highly successful at the box office. After Revenge , he returned to collaborate with the same producers on Days of Thunder , again with Tom Cruise, conceived as a photocopy of Top Gun , which traded aviation for racing cars. The film did not obtain the repercussion that was expected.

Producer Joel Silver put Tony Scott in charge of one of his typical action-humor films, in the vein of Lethal Weapon and Die Hard , his greatest hits, and while The Last Boy Scout fell short of the ball, it got the nod. public support. Just then, an acquaintance introduces him to a certain Quentin Tarantino who was very interested in having him read two scripts he had written: Reservoir Dogs and Point Blank Love . Scott is fascinated and tells the boy that he wants to direct both movies. Tarantino replied that Reservoir Dogs was going to be directed by him, but he sells him Love at point blank range, which starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette becomes one of the director’s best works. It also shines especially in Red Tide , filmed with great dynamism and sophisticated camera movements, despite the fact that the plot takes place inside a submarine. It was his first job with Denzel Washington , who would become a kind of fetish actor with whom he would also shoot The Fire of Vengeance , Déjà Vu and Pelham 123 Robbery . Both will team up again in Unstoppable , scheduled for 2011.

Typecast in the action thriller, and despite the disappointing Fanatic , Scott has managed to keep the level very high with titles like Public Enemy , Spy Game and The Fire of Vengeance –in which he exceeded in brutality in its second installment–. Scott is also the author of Domino , based on the true story of bounty hunter Domino Harvey, which he filmed at an exaggeratedly fast pace, in an experiment that while it didn’t quite work, has her interest.

Divorced twice, Tony shared his life with Donna W. Scott, an actress who appeared briefly in several of his films, with whom he had two children. Tony was also a producer on The Murder of Jesse James , and the television series Numb3rs , among many other titles.

The director monopolized the media when on August 19, 2012 he committed suicide by jumping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles. Investigators found a note in his car and another in his office addressed to his relatives.