Tony Scott Helming Don Aronow Biopic

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=38405

Source: Variety
October 17, 2007


Fox 2000 and director Tony Scott are teaming on a feature about Don Aronow, the inventor of the cigarette boat, reports Variety.

Scott intends to helm the film from a script Michael A.M. Lerner is writing. Scott Free will produce.

Aronow was a self-made millionaire businessman and powerboat racing's world champ for 10 straight years. His cigarette boat became a favorite of Colombian drug smugglers looking to import their product into Miami in the 1980s. Aronow got a $20 million contract to build boats for U.S. Customs agents to catch the smugglers. He was eventually gunned down in 1987 in a mob-style hit in Miami.

Scott will first direct Denzel Washington in a remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 for Columbia Pictures.

 

[nite-owl]

I'm more interested in that remake of Taking Pelham 123 to be honest.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I'm more interested in that remake of Taking Pelham 123 to be honest.

Me too, I took a look at the real Don Aronow, it will certainly not be a role for a conventional leading man. Maybe Benicio Del Toro.

 

[nite-owl]

Me too, I took a look at the real Don Aronow, it will certainly not be a role for a conventional leading man. Maybe Benicio Del Toro.

He looks like Jeff Goldblum here.

 

[tzarinna]

Hmmm, he's kind of sexy.
I'm not familiar with his story but I like the idea of the build up to being gunned downed. I'm sick...I know it.