Ridley Scott threatened to walk away from his upcoming movie after being asked to go too far: "I'm expensive, but I'm f*cking good"

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Ridley Scott threatened to walk from his Bee Gees movie

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Director Ridley Scott threatened to walk away from his upcoming Bee Gees biopic after a disagreement with Paramount.

"The deal – the studio changed the goalposts," Scott told GQ. "I said, 'You can't do that.' They insisted. I said, 'Well, I'm going to warn you, I will walk, because I will go on to the next movie.' They didn’t believe me, and I did."

The Bee Gees biopic, meanwhile, doesn't currently have any confirmed cast members. "I liked the working-class side of the Bee Gees,” Scott told GQ, adding: "It's all about competition with brothers…. And then they lose Andy [Gibb] – Andy OD'd at 30…. It's more about the gift than the luck, right?… It's a fantastic story."

Molly Edwards
Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.