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.

The film is expected to cost nearly €142m, reports Daily Variety.

“This is Lawrence Of Arabia meets The Wild Bunch, a huge film with trains, cavalry thousands of soldiers in uniform and on horseback,” Scott told the newspaper.

“This is a love story between two men from different planets, who educated each other.

Pancho Villa knew the laws of life and Tom Mix knew how to live in a modernised Western world.”