Aiming to take a break from flash visuals, complicated, time twisting plots and possibly even Denzel Washington, Tony Scott has an ey෴e on a very different project for his next film.

He’s cracked open the beer money kitty at Scott Free Productions to nab the rights to a Vanity Fair article called 📖Pat Dollard’s War On Hollywood. And, in the same spending spree, he&rౠsquo;s also locked down the man’s life rights.

So who is Pat Dollard and why would Tony Scott want to make a film about him? Turns out Dollard used to be the Hollywood standard, high-living agent, a man with a drug lust and a series of ex-wives. But he’s also the man who helped get Steven Soderbergh’s career off the ground. And the second act of Dollard’s life is even more cinematic: h🎀e traded the LA lifestyle to film the Marines fighting in Iraq, sporting a Mohawk hairstyle and “die” shaved into his chest hair.

𝓀The result was a documentary titled Young Americans, which he attempted to sell, and a strange porn film made by♈ a bloke he met in rehab.

Scott has secured the surfaces of articleℱ scribe Evan Wright to handle the script.