Scott to direct Tom Mix movie

After 12 years of trying, British director Tony Scott is close to getting his wish to turn the Clifford Irving novel Tom Mix And Pancho Villa into an epic-sized film.

The director is in Mexico scouting locations for the story of an idealistic actor who leaves the comforts of Texas to join with a revolutionary who refused to embrace modern technology, even when the government was conscripting German planes to bomb him and using tanks to blast his armies.