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Tony Scott Tackles the Epic Rise and Fall of Chippendales Founder… Wait, What?
/Film — ... Now this isn’t the follow up to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 that I was expecting. Variety reports that Tony Scott has signed on to adapt the story of Chippendales founder Somen “Steve” Banerjee, who rose to fame in the 1980s (apparently the heyday of male strip clubs). The film will be written by Lisa Schrager, adapting a manuscript by Rodney Sheldon. ...

Tony Scott Goes To Chippendales
Cinema Blend News — ... Taking of Pelham 123 , a high-speed thriller about a crazy man who hijacks a subway train. Next up, he's directing Unstoppable , another movie about a runaway train but this time the train is filled with hazardous materials and it's headed right into a helpless city. Now if you had to predict what he'd be attached to direct next, what would you guess? I'm guessing that you've read the title of this story so you already assume that the movie will be about Chippendales. You're right. Variety reports that Scott has been picked up to direct a biopic about the rise and fall of ...

Tony Scott Plans to Watch Chippendales Dancers but Just as Research on His Next Movie
Collider — Addressing the 80s crisis of muscular men who could only afford bow-ties and cuffs as formal wear, Tony Scott will direct a film about the rise and fall of Somer “Steve” Banerjee, the man who created Chippendales.  While Banerjee built his male strip club into an 80s phenomenon, he was undone by excess and paranoia which was highly ...

Scott grabs onto Banerjee
KillerFilm — Tony Scott and Scott Free Productions latched onto a biopic on the rise and fall of Chippendales creator Steve Banerjee. Lisa Schrager will be penning the script with Tony Scott, David Permut and Firoz Nadiadwala. Variety has more on the story: With a tone similar to the Scott-directed “True Romance,” pic will follow the improbable rise and fall of Banerjee, who went from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolved into Chippendales. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee became wildly rich, as well as unreasonably competitive and paranoid. ...

MEN ON FIRE: TONY SCOTT TAKES ON THE CHIPPENDALES STORY
CHUD.com - A Movie Website and SO MUCH MORE. - Articles - News — [image] [image] I was only six years old when the bizarre life of Chippendale's creator Somen Banerjee ended with him hanging in a prison cell, so I was blissfully unaware of the utter craziness intertwined with the male-stripping tour's history. That craziness is about to hit the big screen. According to Variety , Tony Scott won't be completing his train-movie hat trick he's started with The Taking Of Pelham 123 and is continuing now with Unstoppable (complete with prodigal Denzel Washington), and will instead be taking on this bizarre story. ...

Tony Scott Takes His Pants Off
Subscribe to FilmShaft.com — ... The script has been written by “Pay the Girl” and “Gangsta Bitches” scribe, Lisa Schrager. The script will be adapted from a manuscript written by Rodney Sheldon. Sounding a bit bland so far? Variety has more: ...

Tony Scott directing a Chippendales film
Total Film News — Tony Scott has agreed to direct a film that chronicles the career of Steve Banerjee, the man responsible for male stripper phenomenon The Chippendales. Bannerjee's the man we have to blame for the oiled-up hunks strutting their stuff and making ladies feel funny in their tummies, but his story is a fascinating one. He rose from petrol station attendant to running a top-class nightclub that spawned the original Chippendale dance team. After hiring a New York choreographer to make sure their moves were perfect, he hit the big time and became massively rich. But the fortune went to his head and he became massively ...

Tony Scott Loves Chippendales
We Are Movie Geeks — For a second there, I had a vision of Tony Scott directing a rebooted version of CHIP ‘N DALE’S RESCUE RANGERS that played like an animated DOMINO with an alcoholic Monterey Jack and a pervy Zipper.  But, alas, that is not to be.  As I looked closer (and actually read) the article over at Variety, I saw that Scott will, instead, be directing a film about the rise and eventual fall of Steve Banerjee, the man who created the Chippendales nightclub during the ’80s. From a script written by Lisa Schrager (PAY THE GIRL and GANGSTA BITCHES), the film, as yet untitled, is an adaptation of a manuscript from Rodney ...

Tony Scott To Direct Film About Chippendales Creator
:: The Playlist :: — [image] Hotness alert! Is this gonna be like, " The Full Monty ," only much more foul, odious and cinematically dyslexic? Tony Scott , the ADD, ritalin -deficient director behind filmic follies like " Domino " and " Deja Vu " has attached himself to direct a project based on the life of Steve Banerjee , the man who created the idea of male Chippendales strippers. We know next to nothing about Banerjee's life ( suurrrrre we don't), but according to Variety , his life was "consumed by excess and competition when the male strip clubs became a phenomenon in the 1980s." The Scott-Free production company of Tony and Ridley ...

Scott Helms Chippendales Creator Biopic
Dark Horizons - General Feed — Tony Scott ("Deja Vu," "The Taking of Pelham 123") is set to direct a film about Chippendales creator Steve Banerjee for Scott Free and Permut Presentations says Variety. The story follows the improbable rise and fall of Banerjee, who went from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolved into Chippendales. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee became wildly rich, as well as competitive and paranoid when male strip clubs became a phenomenon in the 1980s. He did in jail awaiting trial after being arrested for arranging a hitman to murder the ...

Tony Scott + Chippendales Means a Different Kind of Action
FirstShowing.net — That's right, Variety reports Tony Scott, the man responsible for such adrenaline fueled action flicks as Deja Vu and Enemy of the State, is gearing up to bring some sex to the silver screen in the form of a biopic about the rise and fall of Chippendales club creator ...

TOP GUN's Not Homoerotic Enough For You?? Get Ready For Tony Scott's Chippendales Movie!!
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — Merrick here... Tony Scott is pulling together a project about Steve Banerjee, the man who created Chippendales. With a tone similar to the Scott-directed "True Romance," pic will follow the improbable rise and fall of Banerjee, who went from pumping gas in Culver City to running a high-end nightclub that evolved into Chippendales. After hiring a New York choreographer to polish the all-male dance troupe, Banerjee became wildly rich, as well as unreasonably competitive and paranoid. Banerjee hired a hitman to murder the choreographer when negotiations went sour. After being arrested, Banerjee died in jail awaiting trial. ...says Variety HERE ...

Tony Scott Throws Money To The Chippendales
Cinematical — In the glorious, not-too-distant future, your cinema screen will soon play host to a legion of rippling abs, biceps glistening with oil, and pelvic thrusts set to a synthesized beat. No, it's not the sequel to 300. It's the rags-to-crazy tale of Steve Banerjee, the creator of Chippendales. According to Variety ...

Tony Scott filming Chippendales biography
Filmstalker — ... to direct, and perhaps now you can see the reasons that he's associated with the film, much more than the Variety article suggested. Lisa Schrager is set to write the script adapted from a manuscript by ...