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Tony Scott, who died yesterday, helped draw the blueprint of the modern blockbuster with films that paired taut story-telling with eye-popping action set pieces. Here’s some of the highlights of a Hollywood career spanning nearly three decades
Top Gun (1986): Scott’s second film starred Kelly McGillis and Tom Cruise as navy pilots. The film made made $350m from a $15m budget, ignited the jet fuel of Scott and Cruise’s careers and spawned the Hot Shots spoof franchise Photograph: Paramount/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar
Enemy Of The State (1998): A loose re-working of Hitchcock’s North-by-Northwest that saw Will Smith playing the ordinary Joe pursued by shady government agents Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex Features
Tony Scott with John Travolta during the filming of The Taking of Pelham 123 in 2008. It was a remake of Joseph Sargant’s 1974 thriller in which a gang of crooks hold the passengers of a New York subway train hostage Photograph: AJ Sokalner/Rex Features
True Romance (1993): Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater starred as a film buff and a comic shop clerk who go on the run after killing a man in self-defence. The script was written by Quentin Tarantino Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature/Everett Collection / Rex Feature
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