From rottentomatoes, "I'm not doing a straight remake," he insisted. "I love the original Warriors and I'm using the same basic story. It's really still 10 guys stuck at point B and they need to get back to point A. But I'm going to set it in Los Angeles and it's going to be a kind of study of gang culture in LA today."
The plot revolves around a gang - the titular Warriors - framed for killing a gang leader who's attempting to make peace with the area's gangs. Scott explained his switch from the original New York setting. "It's a city which is horizontal. New York is vertical, all skyscrapers, and Los Angeles is horizontal. I'm hoping to get a hundred thousand real gang-members standing on the Vincent Thomas Bridge for one shot."
Scott has been busy pursuing these gang members. "I've been meeting the various gangs as part of the research," he explains. "I never meet the gang leader, always his second-in-command. I have to do this little tap-dance and sell the film to them. I've met them all, Crips, Bloods, The 18th Street Gang, The Vietnamese and so on. The all love The Warriors. So it was, 'yeah, fuck yeah we'll be in that!'"
While there's no start date set for the project, expect announcements shortly after Scott's promotional tour for Pelham wraps up. Scott recently announced plans to produce a prequel to Alien, directed - also in 1979 - by his brother Ridley.
7 comments:
That makes complete sense to switch cities. I lived in NYC for 14 years and I don't think I ever saw one gang. Not that I combed the appropriate neighborhoods, or anything.
How awesome would it be if the real life gangstas started going nuts and killing each other during the making of the film?
I have to admit, that would actually be something to see.
that's the first thing i thought when he mentioned getting them all on a bridge together. this is going to go from fiction to non fiction in about 5 minutes.
And then Tony Scott will say "How was I to know?"
As long as he also says, "KEEP ROLLING, GODDAMMIT!"
Btw, isn't this the movie we watched the first weekend we visited you in RI, Octo and DCD?
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