Content deleted Content added
Line 32:
===''Tom Mix and Pancho Villa''===
Scott's involvement with ''Tom Mix and Pancho Villa'' goes as far back as June 1993, when ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported he was to direct the project for [[TriStar Pictures]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Marton|first=Andrew|title=FILM; Coming Soon: Dueling Earps and Other Biopics|date=20 June 1993|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/20/archives/film-coming-soon-dueling-earps-and-other-biopics.html|accessdate=26 October 2023}}</ref> In 2002, it was reported that [[Javier Bardem]] was to portray [[Pancho Villa]] in Scott's film.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Green|first=Jennifer|title=Javier Bardem tipped for Scott's Pancho Villa role|date=11 January 2002|magazine=Screen International|url=https://www.screendaily.com/javier-bardem-tipped-for-scotts-pancho-villa-role/407976.article|accessdate=26 October 2023}}</ref> The project was to have been based on [[Clifford Irving]]'s novel and in 2003, it was reported that Scott was scouting locations in Mexico and [[Steven Zaillian]] was writing the screenplay. "This is ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' (1962) meets ''[[The Wild Bunch]]'' (1969), a huge film with trains, cavalry, thousands of soldiers in uniform and on horseback," Scott said.<ref>{{cite magazine|last2=Bensinger|first2=Ken|last1=Fleming|first1=Michael|title='Pancho' in Mexico mix|date=17 November 2003|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2003/film/markets-festivals/pancho-in-mexico-mix-1117895873/|accessdate=26 October 2003}}</ref>
===''Judge Dredd''===
{{main|Judge Dredd (film)}}
In July 2020, screenwriter [[Peter Briggs (screenwriter)|Peter Briggs]] revealed he was one of several screenwriters enlisted by [[Edward R. Pressman]] for an adaptation adaptation of the [[2000 AD (comics)|''2000 AD'' comics]] series ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' that was to be directed by Tony Scott and star [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]. With producers wanting "competing drafts," Briggs' own draft had to do with Dredd going up against arch enemy [[List of Judge Dredd characters
[[Judge Death]], while [[Jonathan Gems]] pitched a film where [[Mega-City One]] is a post apocalyptic city filled with mutants and an unspecified draft from [[William Wisher Jr.]] Briggs also said producers were interest in having the film be based on The Return Of Rico, in where Judge Dredd's brother [[Rico Dredd|Rico]] escapes from prison and seeks out revenge against Judge Dredd. Briggs would eventually leave the project, as would Schwarzenegger and Scott later on<ref>{{cite web|last=Jenkins|first=Jason|title=Writer Peter Briggs Remembers the Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘Judge Dredd’ Horror Movie That Never Was [Phantom Limbs]|date=14 July 2020|website=Bloody Disgusting|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3623437/writer-peter-briggs-remembers-arnold-schwarzenegger-judge-dredd-horror-movie-never-phantom-limbs/|accessdate=16 February 2025}}</ref>. Judge Dredd would come out in 1995, directed by [[Danny Cannon]] and starring [[Sylvester Stallone]] and being based on The Return Of Rico.
===''Money Train''===
| |||