Hollywood director and producer Tony Scott has jumped from a bridge in LA. Scott was well known for directing films such as Top Gun, Beverley Hills Cop II, Days of Thunder, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Man of Fire and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. He also produced several films, most recently including Prometheus, The Grey and The A-Team. RIP Tony. You were a great director. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19314967
I got "Hollywood director Scott in bridge death" in my Facebook and thought it was Ridley. But yeah, RIP, the weird part is I watched Days of Thunder yesterday.
I know the passing of someone famous is considered always out of nowhere, or can be, but this totally came from left-field. I still haven't wrapped my head around the whole thing. Never known specifically any directors to pass like this...very sad for Ridley as well, to have lost such a great brother, worse yet that Tony is his only brother.. Naturally I don't feel the necessity to explain very much about how Tony Scott's fellow directors and other workers/artists/members of the film industry all relate with loss felt from the man's sudden passing. Not being a tremendous fan of Scott's work, I did however looked up to him and his brother as idols and associated the film True Romance with one of the earliest breaks in indie/mainstream film schools of filmmaking, at least that was how I percieved it during the phase i went to film school and studied theory and all that bullshit waste of $$$$. My point is that if I feel this devastated by his passing, I can't imagine those actually close to him and family. R.I.P. Tony Scott
IMDB reported that Tony had recently been told he had an inoperable brain tumour. Very very sad, and quite a loss to the industry as a whole.
It's never too soon unless you told the joke before anything happened. So you were too late. And I cant believe I didnt manage to accidentally shit out a pun, painful before and after.
This is so sad, I heard about it yesterday. Truly tragic, he had inoperable brain cancer too. Top Gun is one of my all-time favorite movies and Days of Thunder is up there too. The remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 plus Unstoppable were fantastic too. What a loss...he and Ridley (Alien) are two of the best directors ever, the two even collaborated on Prometheus. He died far too soon.
