Scott grabs onto Banerjee

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. Banerjee hired a hitman to murder the choreographer when negotiations went sour. After being arrested, Banerjee died in jail awaiting trial.

Tony Scott is in the middle of production with the Chris Pine starring feature “Unstoppable” and is in pre-production on the remake of “The Warriors”.

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