I just finished watching Deja Vu on DVD and while I feel guilty saying it, for reasons you will find in my review to be posted soon, that I actually enjoyed it, certainly much more than director Tony Scott‘s last few films. However, it looks like Scott is going a bit more serious this next time around with a bio pic on Hollywood agent-turned-pro-war documentary filmmaker Pat Dollard.
The idea came from a Vanity Fair article titled “Pat Dollard’s War on Hollywood” and Evan Wright, the article’s author, is ready to write the screenplay.
The Hollywood Reporter gives us the following description of the article:
The article portrayed Dollard, who nurtured the career of a then-unknown Steven Soderbergh, as the stereotypical Hollywood agent with a drug-fueled lifestyle and a collection of ex-wives. Dollard chucked the “Entourage”-esque world, embedding himself with Marines in Iraq, where he joined patrols and survived several bombings. Dollard went from wearing Armani suits to combat gear, hair styled in a Mohawk and the word “die” shaved into his chest hair.
The article described his attempt to sell the documentary, titled “Young Americans,” as well as his making a concurrent docu, an incoherent porn filmed by a rehab sidekick, which echoed “Auto Focus,” a film that Dollard produced.
The interesting thing about the film for me will be a matter of how much Scott turns to his traditional flashy directing style. Of course the material does fit a bit in with what he did with Domino, but that film certainly didn’t benefit from it.
