{"id":21751,"date":"2012-08-20T07:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T11:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21751"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:40:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:40:06","slug":"top-gun-director-tony-scott-dead-in-apparent-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/20\/top-gun-director-tony-scott-dead-in-apparent-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP GUN Director Tony Scott Dead In Apparent Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TonyScott1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21752\" title=\"TonyScott1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/TonyScott1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Tony Scott, the British director of such films as <strong>Top Gun<\/strong> and <strong>True Romance<\/strong>, is dead after jumping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, CA yesterday afternoon, an apparent suicide. According to official reports, Scott climbed an eight to ten-foot fence on the south side of the bridge and jumped &#8220;without hesitation&#8221; at about 12:30 p.m. A suicide note was reportedly found in the director&#8217;s office, though the police have not released its contents.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was 68.<\/p>\n<p>Although it would probably be reckless and irresponsible to speculate as to why Scott would be driven to perform such an act, I find it difficult to believe that this would have been over career concerns. His recent films <strong>Unstoppable<\/strong> and <strong>The Taking Of Pelham 123<\/strong> had performed well at the box office and he currently had a number of new projects in development including a sequel to his hit<strong> Top Gun<\/strong>. His production company Scott Free, which he co-owns with his brother director Ridley Scott, was behind the television series <em>Numb3rs<\/em> and <em>The Good Wife<\/em> and had just completed work on a two-night, four hour mini-series adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel <em>Coma<\/em> starring Ellen Burstyn for A&amp;E.<\/p>\n<p>Much like his brother Ridley, Tony Scott started his career working in commercials before he moved over to feature films. His first film was the 1983 Catherine Deneuve vampire tale <strong>The Hunger<\/strong>. But it was his sophomore effort, <strong>Top Gun<\/strong>, which really launched his career as an action director as well as boosted star Tom Cruise&#8217;s already ascendent career. Scott followed the film with more action fare such as <strong>Days Of Thunder<\/strong>, also with Cruise, <strong>Beverly Hills Cop II<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong> Crimson Tide<\/strong> and the Quentin Tarantion-scripted <strong>True Romance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The director was 68.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/20\/top-gun-director-tony-scott-dead-in-apparent-suicide\/\" title=\"TOP GUN Director Tony Scott Dead In Apparent Suicide\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[2778],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-obituary-news","7":"tag-tony-scott"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21751"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}