The Salkind family paid and produced this film. At first, WB had very little to do with the movie. Later the Salkind brothers would have a falling out with Director Richard Donner, and would fire him before he completed Superman 2.
Remembering The Last Boy Scout
Friday night is a great time for... football. I am not a sports fan, but I fondly remember The Last Boy Scout. It was one of those hyper-action movies Shane Black wrote. Directed by Tony Scott and produced by Joel Silver, not to be confused with Ron Silver. Throw in Bruce Willis and music by Michael Kamen, and you got the whole 90s movie shebang: Bang Bang. At this time, people were getting a little bit of an action movie overload, and it only made a little over 110 million on a 43 million budget. Not great, but the movie did make back its budget through rewatches on cable and video. I've come to really love this movie that floated around in the late 80s and early 90s. It is a demo of the Michael Bay stuff that would come out today. Future stars played smaller parts. Here is the best part of this movie. The bad guys actually won in real life. Remember, this movie is centered around the g...
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