Behind the scenes of his production company Scott Free: How the iconic director picks his projects, and his one real business regret.
Ridley Scott was photographed Sept. 19 at the West Hollywood headquarters of Scott Free, with chief creative officer David Zucker, president of film Michael Pruss, president of TV Clayton Krueger and president and COO Justin Alvarado Brown.“I say, ‘Narrow it down to something very simple and brief — tell me the film in two sentences,’ ” says the renowned and prolific British director of such films as. “You should light the idea up, and within that you’ve got to have a fuse — a time bomb.
When Scott is asked how he feels about stepping back into a producer role while some of the cinematic worlds he’s helped create become TV shows led by others, the man is surprisingly at peace with it all. “I’ve created the pace visually for a while,” says Scott, who spends his time between L.A. and France. “I know exactly what I’ve done and how it has been influential. And from that, I can’t hope for anything more other than to keep it alive. I don’t care what the platform is.
If there’s a common thread among Scott Free productions, executives say it’s making literary, filmmaker-driven projects that seem worthy of having Sir Ridley Scott in their credits. “Whenever we look at material, it needs to feel authored, it needs to feel like there’s some kind of signature in the writing,” says president of film Michael Pruss. “We get sent every sci-fi and action film under the sun because of Ridley, but we’re truly genre-agnostic.
One unique aspect of Scott Free is that it is essentially independent — the shingle hasn’t had a studio partnership since 2009, though it’s had a first-look agreement with 20th Century for decades that Scott Free recently renewed in a multiyear deal. “We don’t have a studio that’s telling us, ‘You can do this, you can’t do that,’ ” notes chief creative officer David Zucker.
20th Century Studios president Steve Asbell certainly appreciates Scott’s commitment, having first worked with the director on 2005’s“There is no more innovative, courageous or ferocious film producer in the business,” Asbell says. “He and Tony crafted Scott Free to reflect their creative integrity as filmmakers, and the company has long been a cornerstone of 20th’s production output.”
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