Scott re-doing "The Warriors"

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Tony Scott's lame ideas for reconstructing Walter Hill's The Warriors is another case of a hip Hollywood guy (and his chortling corporate backers) showing obesiance before the power of street machismo, or the wild west factor in urban culture. Establishing a bond with all this links to a general connection with urban audiences and presumed loyalty down the road. In short, a good business move.

You homies are the shit and the style...predatory turf monsters with fierce expressions and shaved heads and big developed biceps, and you know how fast and cool I can be. (Check out Domino.) And I want to make a film that reflects and worships you and your hard culture (violence, bling, fast money, hot cars, ho's) to the hilt. Trust me when I say that no amount of grovelling or cinematic fellatio is beyond my bounds.

Scott money quote #1: "I really hate remakes, but the The Warriors is one of my all time favorite movies, and what I'm doing is kind of reinventing it. And rather than a gang it¹s going to be 30 guys who take on 3,000. It's Kingdom Of Heaven meets The Warriors. We're going to use the L.A. river bed as a major location."

Scott money quote #2: "I've been meeting all the [real] gang leaders, they¹re saying they¹ll sign this treaty for the duration of the shoot. I want this shot of 50,000 real gang members all on Long Beach -- tThe Crips, The Bloods, the Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the 18th Street gang... all there. It's going to be cool."

comment #1

actionman says ...

Wow Jeff, you are begining to worry me

This sounds SO FUCKING COOL!!! what the hell is wrong with you?!?!?

The Warriors was a great-for-its-time action movie that plays out in extremely dated fashion by today's standards. Not to say that it's a bad action flick, as I love most of Walter Hill's output. But this is one flick that could stand a re-imagining, and I for one am just fuckin' giddy about the prospects of a completely balls-out Tony Scott style remake.

Jeff--what did you think of Deja Vu, or have you still not seen it yet?

And honestly man, what's going on with you lately? So much hate and bile and anger coming out of you....I love your site but it's been a turn-off the last few weeks...

comment #2

christian says ...

no actionman, this sounds totally UNCOOL.

THE WARRIORS is an urban comic book and this "reimagining" is a shallow white dude's idea of street cred. you don't need to even see this just imagine it in your head: hear the ludacris beats! see the flash frame elliptical action scenes! behold the washed out orange glow of LA!
tony scott keeps it real!

comment #3

christian says ...

no actionman, this sounds totally UNCOOL.

THE WARRIORS is an urban comic book and this "reimagining" is a shallow white dude's idea of street cred. you don't need to even see this just imagine it in your head: hear the ludacris beats! see the flash frame elliptical action scenes! behold the washed out orange glow of LA!
tony scott keeps it real!

comment #4

christian says ...

sorry for the double dip. itchy trigger finger.

comment #5

The Movie Man says ...

This is tasteless and depressing even by the standards of Mr. Scott, maybe he'll get lucky and can convince some of the gang members to off themselves for the benefit of the camera, and of course, our amusement.

comment #6

Monument says ...

Didn't Michael Jackson already do this in the "Beat It" video?

comment #7

actionman says ...

you guys have NO fuckin' balls

comment #8

corey3rd says ...

50,000 gang members in one place....I want to be caught in that traffic jam.

There should just be a movie about this movie and what the hell goes wrong when somebody decides to get a bit of revenge on the set. The whole movie could be about Tony Scott trying to get his ass home and not get killed by gangbangers or beaten senseless by cops who are pissed at Tony's project. There's reimagining.

comment #9

KunDunz says ...

The script is suppose to be balls, so I wouldnt put much faith in this remake.

comment #10

D.Z. says ...

The only gangs left in New York are the ones run by the mafia and the occasional cop whose silence they're able to buy off. It makes sense to move the film to L.A., because that's where the tension is right now.

comment #11

christian says ...

there's a good movie waiting to happen about gangs, but methinks the guy who directed THE HUNGER, DOMINO, DAYS OF THUNDER and BEVERLY HILLS COP 2 is not the one.

and of course, the real gangs who appear will use the film to validate their thuggery. cool.

comment #12

Walter Sobchak says ...

I can see it now! Computer generated gangs! CG fights! CG Baseball Furies! CG explosions! CG Rogue-mobile! And that cool filter that makes the sky all orange no matter what time of day it is. And a cool CG scene where a six-year-old girl playing in her living room gets part of her head blown off by a stray bullet from a 9mm fired by one gang member at another because he dissed him! That'll be AWESOME!

comment #13

actionman says ...

if u knew anything about tony scott than you would know he'd never ever use obvious CGI and I highly doubt he'll be using CGI gangs. One of the best aspects of Tony's movies is that even if something has been created by/with a computer, you'd never be able to tell.

comment #14

Walter Sobchak says ...

Well golly, actionman, you got me there.

comment #15

actionman says ...

you either like stylish, manly, violent, ass-kicking action movies or you don't.

comment #16

siamesecat says ...

"I want this shot of 50,000 real gang members all on Long Beach -- tThe Crips, The Bloods, the Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the 18th Street gang... all there."

In the Air Force this is known as a "target-rich environment."

comment #17

actionman says ...

to coin a phrase from tony scott's top gun...

comment #18

Argen says ...

So...you're claiming that the Air Force borrowed the phrase from TOP GUN?

comment #19

actionman says ...

oh please, get over yourself, u know what i meant
this is a thread about tony scott for chrissake

comment #20

donnyboy says ...

---if u knew anything about tony scott than you would know he'd never ever use obvious CGI---

I guess you didn't you see Redford's face in SPY GAME then.

comment #21

Argen says ...

True. But when you say "to coin a phrase" it means... oh, never mind.

To stay on topic, Scott can do what he wants with THE WARRIORS as long as he's not burning all remaining prints of the original. That way I can avoid his and watch the Hill version until I'm a very old man. It may be dated, but it is a piece of art.

comment #22

corey3rd says ...

the whole film will be shot in Close Up - it's a tony scott film

comment #23

donnyboy says ...

corey3rd :

don't you mean: primed for the DVD market?

comment #24

actionman says ...

"I guess you didn't you see Redford's face in SPY GAME then."

what are u talking about...?

comment #25

MPNeeb says ...

Tony might actually have a few good ideas, but put them in a movie that isn't a 'Warriors' remake.
I have no need to see a bunch of slow-mo'ed half-wits trying to look tough and invoke the 'wack' natural of the original.
All I can figure is Tony is trying to ape some of the coolness that will result from Ridley's 'American Gangster' next year.

comment #26

Dave Polands Gut says ...

Does anyone remember how piss poor Dominoe was??

Can Scott just fade into a background somewhere. he had his shot.

comment #27

actionman says ...

Domino was amazing, one of Scott's best films

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