When a £15m movie star rang to moan about his private jet, I knew I was done with Hollywood. How Scottish movie mogul Scott Neeson quit Tinseltown - and set up a charity to help children living on a rubbish dump By Annie Brown For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 15:29 EDT, 12 July 2024 | Updated: 15:49 EDT, 12 July 2024 e-mail View comments The Hollywood star on the conference call was apoplectic. The private jet sent to fly him from Tokyo to LA fell far short of the luxury he had grown accustomed to.
Amenities on the plane were inferior –none of his favourite PlayStation games were on board. Patched into the call was the A-lister’s agent and Scott Neeson, then a top marketing executive for Sony Pictures. The movie star, who commanded £15million a picture, barked at Neeson: ‘You know that my life was not meant to be this difficult.
’ Before joining Sony, Neeson had been president of 20th Century Fox International, where he was responsible for overseeing the release and marketing of several of the top films of all time including Braveheart, Titanic, Stars Wars and X-Men. Scott Neeson found his calling helping the children of ‘Smoky Mountain’ dump Neeson in Cambodia with American actress Heather Graham The Scot rubbed shoulders with Harrison Ford Neeson's social circle included Braveheart star Mel Gibson He had become inured to the outbursts of mollycoddled film stars. As a Scot who had been born into one of Edinburgh’s most deprived housing estates, he didn�.