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Anthony David Leighton Scott (21 June 1944 – 19 August 2012) was an English filmmaker.. He made his theatrical film debut with The Hunger (1983) and went on to direct highly successful action and thriller films such as Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Days of Thunder (1990), The Last Boy Scout (1991), Crimson Tide (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu ...
Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film [2] directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures.The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns", written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine three years earlier.
Development of a Top Gun sequel was announced in 2010 by Paramount Pictures. Tom Cruise, along with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott, were asked to return. Craig wrote a draft of the screenplay in 2012, but the project stalled when Scott died later that year. [6] Top Gun: Maverick was later dedicated to Scott's memory. [7]
The late Tony Scott directed the first film. Ridley Scott was asked to pilot the sequel to Top Gun, but declined for a sentimental reason.. The Gladiator filmmaker revealed as much in a recent ...
One of Top Gun’s most iconic scenes so angered Paramount executives that the late filmmaker Tony Scott could have lost his job, according to the Oscar-nominated editors who worked on the 1986 ...
Tony, known for directing Top Gun, Man on Fire and more, was 68 when he died by suicide on Aug. 19, 2012. He is survived by now-24-year-old twin sons, Max and Frank, with wife Donna, and his older ...
Kelly Ann McGillis [1] (born July 9, 1957) [2] [3] is an American actress. She is known for her film roles such as Rachel Lapp in Witness (1985), for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations; Charlie in Top Gun (1986); Made in Heaven (1987); The House on Carroll Street (1988); and as Katheryn Murphy in The Accused (1988). [ 4 ]
In November 1998, Scott was in negotiations to direct Fox 2000's action-thriller Josiah's Canon for producer Adam Fields. The spec script, first written by Jeff King, follows a Holocaust survivor who leads a team of bank robbers on a heist of a Swiss bank. At the time of Scott's involvement, Phil Alden Robinson wrote a new draft of the ...