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Article: We've Scott to get him...
- Article from:
- Shields Gazette (South Shields, England)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2007
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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 ...