Scott Free Productions

Scott Free Productions is an American independent film production company owned by Gladiator, Alien, Black Hawk Down, American Gangster, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Prometheus and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott and his late friend Tony Scott in 1980 as Percy Main Productions, it was renamed as Scott Free Productions in 1984, in 19 August, 2012 it was revealed Tony Scott was at approximately 12:30 p.m. PDT, Scott died by suicide by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the San Pedro port district of Los Angeles, California. Investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department's Harbor Division found contact information in a note left in his car, parked on the bridge, and a note at his office for his family. Witnesses said he did not hesitate before jumping. His body was recovered from the water by the Los Angeles Port Police. Within hours of his death, a rumor began circulating that a possible motive for his suicide was that he had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Both his widow and his brother Ridley categorically denied the rumor. On August 22, Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winters said the two notes Scott left behind made no mention of any health issues but neither the police nor the family disclosed the content of those notes which lefted Ridley Scott taking over the company alone, The studio has partnered with Original Film, GK Films, Launchpad Productions, Likely Story, IMF, The Combine, Iron Horse Entertainment, Vulcan Productions, Appian Way Productions, Radar Pictures and Intermedia in producing Sonic Cinematic Universe for Universal, Columbia and MGM and the production companies Annapurna, Walden Media and Everest Entertainment.