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[UPDATED] In Memoriam: R.L. Scott (1976-2022), Cause Of Death Revealed

UPDATE – 10/15/2022: A source close to the family of R.L. Scott with knowledge of his condition has informed us that the cause of Scott’s death this week, as reported on Wednesday, was attributed to a gastrointestinal issue caused by diabetes. A GoFundMe campaign is underway to help fund a memorial in his honor to be held by wife, Isabell. Published October 12, 2022: Wednesday, I learned the shocking news that filmmaker R.L. Scott passed away at the age of 45. The cause of his death remains unknown, so this is a developing story, and I will update this post when I learn the facts in full. Scott was born in America and raised in Salvador, Bahia in Brazil. He cultivated himself in martial arts from the age of seven and returned to the U.S. in 1992, when he began writing his first short film. He graduated from USC thirteen […]

R.L. Scott’s CHAMPION ROAD And CHAMPION ROAD: ARENA, A Road Roughly Paved In Epic Urban Action

Lee B. Golden III

Director R.L. Scott may be a nary blip on the radar, but he’s indeed one of the treasured handful of directors who has made use of the stunt and action talent field in past decade to date. You’ll find plenty of them in his 2008 and 2010 installments, Champion Road and Champion Road: Arena, both comprised of many of the usual trops of most independent productions – digitally shot and lacking in several areas in terms of audio, but well versed enough to intrigue the minds of genre fans. Both films journey into the world of Johnathan Merser, an ex-con whose devoted live-in girlfriend, Rain, suddenly falls ill from cancer. Desperate for the money he needs to invest in a life-saving surgical procedure, he turns to Grant, a close friend whose connections run deep into the city’s illegal underground fighting circuit where cash comes quick if you win, and death […]