Mark Millar OnTony Scott’s Death

It’s a sad day in the film and entertainment industry as the news of the death of the Director Tony Scott’s has left many of his fans shocked and grieving on this day. Among those who have expressed their sorrow at the new is Mark Millar the comic book writer from Kickass, Nemesis and many other successive series. Mr. Millar Expressed his grieve on the Following from post from his twitter account.
I'm just awake this morning and blinking at the screen, reading details about Tony's suicide. I got back from LA a couple of days ago where I spent a big chunk of my time with Tony's producer as Scott Free (the production company he formed with his brother Ridley) bought the rights to the adaptation of one of my books and so he's a guy who's ber en in my thoughts a lot over the past eighteen months.

In the brief period we got to know each other, where he was talking about directing this adaptation himself, I found an instant rapport. He hated email and instead used to communicate with funny hand-written notes which his assistant would scan and mail to me and he'd tend to communicate this way or by postcard if we didn't speak by phone. In the short time we were planning our thing I found him incredibly funny and polite, courteous to a fault. I was a nobody writer from a world he really barely knew (he grew up a good ten years before Marvel comics really seized the public imagination), but he loved the anarchy of comics and my co-creator and artist Steve McNiven really appealed to him because he reminded him of the Heavy Metal work he dug, the Moebius and Rank Xerox strips he'd gotten into. I remember getting one of his cyber post-cards with a little drawing saying our scheduled call would be 30 mins late as he had a meeting and I think this pretty much sums him up: Polite and charming to a guy he barely knew and always keeping a personal touch in an industry where that's often the first thing to go.

As a craftsman, I thought he had one of the most eclectic and interesting resumes in the biz, True Romance as different from Crimson Tide as you can get, The Hunger and The Last Boy Scout two of my absolute favourite movies. It bugged me when he was criticised for being all flash and no substance. It was short-hand for the lazy reviewer, the critic who missed what he brought to the screen and the breadth of what he was capable of. He was a nice man and a talented man and it's such a sad end for someone I got to genuinely like in the short period where our world's touched, but like everyone here I'll mainly miss him as a brilliant and unique film-maker.

Tony Scott never directed a movie based on a comic book. But he sure did remind us why we love going to the movies. The Hunger, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, are only a few of his movies that left a mark in cinema history, as he brought all the excitements and the thrills we can ask for in good action film.