Article: We've Scott to get him...

HE is responsible for Hollywood blockbusters such as Gladiator and Blade Runner.

Now top director Ridley Scott could be bringing the inspirational story of a South Shields-born war hero to the big screen.

Scott, also born in South Shields, has been sent a copy of the script for Bravest Of The Brave.

Written by producer Ed Skelding, it is a film about one man's desire to get back home to his family after finding himself in Australia.

But due to a turn of events, John Simpson Kirkpatrick never made it.

After signing up as a stretcher bearer with the Australian army he was killed in action at the age of 22 in Gallipoli, during ...

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