This just in: Tony and Ridley Scott buy rights to make a movie about the Sun, the Earth, and everything that has existed upon it throughout human history. Seriously. The Scott family is becoming omnipresent.
The latest (and most ridiculous) news, which is only paralleled by Ridley Scott’s desire to make a film adaptation of the board game Monopoly, is that brother Tony Scott has been attached to direct a film based on the life of Steve Banerjee, the man who created Chippendales, a chain of male strip clubs that sort of symbolize the excess and absurdity of the 1980s in general.
In my head, I’m imagining something vaguely similar to Boogie Nights, shot with Scott’s excessive flair in a manner like Domino or The Taking of Pelham 123. I think my head might explode.
Lisa Schrager wrote the script, who, according to Variety, “penned the Heidi Fleiss story “Pay the Girl” for Nicole Kidman at Paramount and “Gangsta Bitches” at Universal. She will adapt a manuscript written by Rodney Sheldon.”
Their plot description seems to indicate that a much deeper story is present than one would think, although still not that deep:
“With a tone similar to the Scott-directed True Romance, pic will follow the improbable rise and fall of Banerjee, who went from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolved into Chippendales. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee became wildly rich, as well as unreasonably competitive and paranoid. Banerjee hired a hitman to murder the choreographer when negotiations went sour. After being arrested, Banerjee died in jail awaiting trial.”
Spoilers.
What do you think? Is this a good idea? Note: between the two Scotts, there are 25 projects currently in development.
